rulemylife -> RE: On torchure. Obama is WRONG (5/9/2009 9:13:04 AM)
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ORIGINAL: CruelNUnsual Per the NY Times The United States prosecuted some Japanese interrogators at war crimes trials after World War II for waterboarding and other methods detailed in the memos. I didnt think this smelled right when I read it, and it isnt. The technique was not waterboarding it was the "water cure". Forced ingestion of massive quantities of water, causing extreme abdominal pain. Sometimes accompanied by jumping up and down on the engorged stomach. NY Times: all the mistakes that fit, we print. Fit our agenda that is. You need to smell around a little more: Waterboarding - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Chase J. Nielsen, one of the U.S. airmen who flew in the Doolittle raid following the attack on Pearl Harbor, was subjected to waterboarding by his Japanese captors.[71] At their trial for war crimes following the war, he testified "Well, I was put on my back on the floor with my arms and legs stretched out, one guard holding each limb. The towel was wrapped around my face and put across my face and water poured on. They poured water on this towel until I was almost unconscious from strangulation, then they would let up until I'd get my breath, then they'd start over again… I felt more or less like I was drowning, just gasping between life and death. Waterboarding - MSN Encarta Following World War II (1939-1945) American prosecutors convicted several Japanese soldiers for waterboarding Allied prisoners of war. The soldiers were tried as part of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, also known as the Tokyo War Crimes Trials. McCain: Japanese Hanged For Waterboarding - CBS News (AP) Republican presidential candidate John McCain reminded people Thursday that some Japanese were tried and hanged for torturing American prisoners during World War II with techniques that included waterboarding. "There should be little doubt from American history that we consider that as torture otherwise we wouldn't have tried and convicted Japanese for doing that same thing to Americans," McCain said during a news conference.
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