A member of the Register editorial board asked Bachmann: “If you think it’s not that bad, would you ever willingly submit to it just to see what it’s like?” Bachmann replied that she would not submit to waterboarding. “Well, I think it would be absurd to have the President of the United States submit themselves to waterboarding,” Bachmann replied.
Nashville-based mixed martial artist Ed Clay underwent waterboarding after last week’s GOP presidential debate where Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann and Herman Cain announced they favored waterboarding terror suspects. He emerged a critic of waterboarding and saidthat if the the pro-family values Bachmann agreed to be waterboarded “I bet you would get Bachmann to admit that she supports gay marriage.” Bachmann told the press November 16 that submitting to waterboarding would be “absurd.”
“Until I’d been waterboarded,” Clay said in a YouTube video where he underwent the procedure. “I really didn’t have an opinion whether it was torture or not. So I wanted to find out for myself.” He emerged with a clear verdict: It is torture.
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Would Michelle Bachmann Support Gay Marriage if Waterboarded?
November 19, 2011 — adminA member of the Register editorial board asked Bachmann: “If you think it’s not that bad, would you ever willingly submit to it just to see what it’s like?” Bachmann replied that she would not submit to waterboarding. “Well, I think it would be absurd to have the President of the United States submit themselves to waterboarding,” Bachmann replied.
Nashville-based mixed martial artist Ed Clay underwent waterboarding after last week’s GOP presidential debate where Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann and Herman Cain announced they favored waterboarding terror suspects. He emerged a critic of waterboarding and saidthat if the the pro-family values Bachmann agreed to be waterboarded “I bet you would get Bachmann to admit that she supports gay marriage.” Bachmann told the press November 16 that submitting to waterboarding would be “absurd.”
“Until I’d been waterboarded,” Clay said in a YouTube video where he underwent the procedure. “I really didn’t have an opinion whether it was torture or not. So I wanted to find out for myself.” He emerged with a clear verdict: It is torture.
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