Rick Perry: I’ll Defend Waterboarding ‘Until I Die’

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Rick Perry and Michele Bachmann just jumped all over Ron Paul for his contentions that waterboarding is torture and using drones to American citizens like Anwar al-Awlaki is wrong.

“This is war,” Perry said, later adding, “I will defend [techniques like waterboarding] until I die.”

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