Memo to Democrats: Waterboarding Works

For all those on the left--and some on the right--who get all squishy over the concept of waterboarding terrorists, here's all you need to know about how effective the method is.

Thirty-five seconds of waterboarding was all it took to get a top al Qaeda terrorist to break, his CIA interrogator revealed yesterday.

Abu Zubaydah, a top lieutenant to Osama bin Laden captured in March 2002, gave up his conspirators after a half-minute of the technique, according to now retired CIA officer John Kiriakou.

"The next day, he told his interrogator that Allah had visited him in his cell during the night and told him to cooperate," Kiriakou told ABC News.

"From that day on, he answered every question."

He added, "The threat information he provided disrupted a number of attacks, maybe dozens of attacks."

Zubaydah was reportedly the first insider to finger Khalid Sheik Mohammed as the mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks, as well as Jose Padilla's alleged dirty bomb plot.

So for all the caterwauling and handwringing about our image around the world, for all the incessant whining, I have a simple question: Would you have preferred those possible dozens of attacks to have occurred or would it have been better to stop them?

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