After World War II, Japanese soldiers were hanged for the war crime of waterboar

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NNN0LHI  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Sat Feb-09-08 04:24 PM
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After World War II, Japanese soldiers were hanged for the war crime of waterboarding US soldiers
   
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http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/020808a.html


<snip>As McConnell grew more relaxed, however, he let slip the rationale for Mukasey’s effrontery and the administration’s refusal to admit that waterboarding is torture. For anyone paying attention, that rationale has long been a no-brainer. But here is McConnell inadvertently articulating it:

“If it is ever determined to be torture, there will be a huge penalty to be paid for anyone engaging in it.”

Well, Mike, you should get yourself a briefing on that. Even the Bush-administration-friendly editorial page of the Washington Post on Friday saw fit to declare torture “illegal in all instances,” adding that “waterboarding is, and always has been, torture.”

After World War II, Japanese soldiers were hanged for the war crime of waterboarding American soldiers. Indeed, patriots and prophets have made it clear from our earliest days that such abuse has no place in America.

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Uhh morons waterboarding was one of the more pleasant tactics the Japanese used on POWs try watching the history channel or read a damn book. 

wildbilln864  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Sat Feb-09-08 05:35 PM
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5. Hang em high! nt

Yet another call to kill * 

[Ptarmigan]

Japanese were very brutal, moreso than the Nazis. They did hideous biological experiments on prisoners and POWs.

[jukin]

If the islamofascists would promise to only wipe out the liberafascists I would never want my government to wterboard.

[DumbAss Tanker]

What the Japanese did wasn't waterboarding, it involved putting a hose in the prisoner's mouth and forcing him to swallow a very large quantity of water or drown.  And it was indeed one of the mildest things they did to prisoners, a surprisingly small number of the SOBs were actually executed, especially compared to the number who deserved it, and I don't believe any of them were executed exclusively for using this particular technique, but rather for killing prisoners in all sorts of ways to including this shit with the hose.

[TheSarge]

wildbilln864  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Sat Feb-09-08 05:35 PM
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5. Hang em high! nt

Haven't you heard...if you display a noose anywhere in the U.S. it's now considered a "hate crime".

So there goes your theory...idiot.