As Condoleezza Rice zusetzten students.

Sometimes rich quick, simple questions, to even a former U.S. foreign minister into a corner to drift. Is water boarding torture? Stanford students insisted, a YouTube video shows the reaction of Condolezza Rice. Featured, find blogs editor Jan Friedmann.

 

The column is serious this time, it is about ancient virtues and modern torture methods such as simulated drowning. Jeremy and Sammy Cohn Abusrur, students at Stanford University near San Francisco, had the chance, with her ex-foreign minister and now-again professor Condoleezza Rice to speak. The following dialogue is transmitted on YouTube.

Student: "Is water boarding torture?"

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Rice: "The President gave us the instruction to take no action, which is contrary to the Convention against Torture. By the way was no authorization from me. I have only the statement of the Government of the CIA given, that they have from the Ministry of Justice had the green light. More I have not done. "

Student: "Okay. Is water boarding torture?"

Rice: "I've just been told that the United States of America was instructed not to undertake, which is contrary to the Convention against Torture. So it is by definition so that an order by the President was not against the Anti-Torture Convention could. "

Student: "Good. Thank you! All clear."

Everything clear? The politician entlarvt with their dialectical dislocation, and the questionable methods of the Bush administration like this. How? Following a simple question.

The ancient philosophers called the emergence of truth in other people "Mäeutik" Midwives art. The questions were targeted at the beginning of each course, Socrates is brought to life principle. Today, this skill is buried somewhere under the Credit-Points and master modules.

Jeremy and Sammy are elected by their peers on the Internet and celebrated as heroes - because they demand.

The agency quoted starts at 5:28 minutes after the apparent annoyed ex-Secretary of State Rice a hard handles critical students that he should "do its homework." The recording was at the end of April into the network - a few days earlier had
Media reports show that water boarding Rice, the brutal interrogation method of simulated drowning of terrorism suspects on behalf of the Bush administration had authorized.