Torture memos

[Undertoad]

Originally Posted by one guy's opinion in the WaPo

Leading members of Japan's military and government elite were charged, among their many other crimes, with torturing Allied military personnel and civilians. The principal proof upon which their torture convictions were based was conduct that we would now call waterboarding.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterboarding#World_War_II

Originally Posted by Wikipedia

In this [Japanese] version [of waterboarding], interrogation continued during the torture, with the interrogators beating the victim if he did not reply and the victim swallowing water if he opened his mouth to answer or breathe. When the victim could ingest no more water, the interrogators would beat or jump on his distended stomach.

Originally Posted by our smarmy little intelligence expert

Please don't tell me you didn't already know this.

Isn't she so cute! being all smug and pretending to know stuff!

[sugarpop]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterboarding#World_War_II




Isn't she so cute! being all smug and pretending to know stuff!

Why are you being such an ass? I am entitled to my opinion, which by the way, is the same as millions of other Americans. I have learned about this stuff over the past 8 years. I am not an expert, and I don't believe I have ever suggested otherwise.