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To: jackmercer
Eight Japenese Kempeitai are convicted for waterboarding soldiers and are executed by the United States.

This is nonsense, they were executed for murder. I don't have time now to deconstruct the rest of your crap but maybe tomoorow night.

63 posted on 05/23/2009 7:19:34 PM PDT by jwalsh07
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To: jwalsh07

“This is nonsense, they were executed for murder. I don’t have time now to deconstruct the rest of your crap but maybe tomoorow night.”

Yes, they committed many atrocities. But why according to the Tokyo Trials reports was waterboarding at the top of the list in the list of atrocities. Also, are you aware that some Japenese soldiers were sentenced to hard labor solely for waterboarding and no other atrocities?

Regardless, I think the evidence placed before you shows that the United States has a history and has set precedence in both the civilian legal and military forums that waterboarding is torture and the arbiters and actors of the torture deserve punishment upon conviction.

Here, pick up one of these books if you want to see the United States’ historical view of waterboarding:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Military_Tribunal_for_the_Far_East#Books


64 posted on 05/24/2009 8:10:02 AM PDT by jackmercer
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