Osama bin Laden's death direct result of water boarding.

First, let me be quite clear. Water boarding is not torture. If we labeled everything that caused psychological trauma as torture, we would have no way of interrogating anyone, ever. They way interrogations work is by causing mental and emotional stress.

Second, turns out the left wingers that cried foul were wrong, because water boarding directly led America to Osama.

“A member of the US Senate Intelligence Committee has told CNBC that the death of Osama Bin Laden was a direct result of enhanced interrogations.”
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“…in 2007, that terror suspects at the Guantanamo Bay military prison started giving up information about the key courier.”
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“Current and former U.S. officials say that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, provided the nom de guerre of one of bin Laden’s most trusted aides. The CIA got similar information from Mohammed’s successor, Abu Faraj al-Libi. Both were subjected to harsh interrogation tactics inside CIA prisons in Poland and Romania."

While I doubt Obama will admit this in public, I also doubt he'll outright deny it. The fact of the matter is that we are trying to fight by a set of rules while our enemies fight by none. Try winning a fist fight where your opponent can kick you in the groin and go for your eyes, but you have to fight him like a boxer. Your opponent will win quite easily.

Hat tip to Kathleen McKinley at Right Wing News.