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Originally Posted by Zach
Are you talking about waterboarding? That's hardly torture. I guess you support putting innocent lives on the line because you don't want water droplets put up a terrorist's nose?
Torture: (n) enduring purposefully inflicted excruciating physical pain
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According to John McCain:
Japanese were tried and hanged for torturing American prisoners during World War II with techniques that included waterboarding.
It seems that the US thought waterboarding was torture back then!
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/...litics_3554687
And
in 1947, the United States charged a Japanese officer, Yukio Asano, with war crimes for carrying out another form of waterboarding on a U.S. civilian. The subject was strapped on a stretcher that was tilted so that his feet were in the air and head near the floor, and small amounts of water were poured over his face, leaving him gasping for air until he agreed to talk.
"Asano was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor," Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) told his colleagues last Thursday during the debate on military commissions legislation. "We punished people with 15 years of hard labor when waterboarding was used against Americans in World War II," he said
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...100402005.html
So - your opinion that waterboarding is
hardly torture seems to be completely unsupported
BTW - would you mind disclosing where you got your definition of torture. Was that supposed to be from some learned source? Or did you just make it up?