“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
What the Japanese did to their POWs made even the Nazis blanch. The Japanese routinely beheaded and bayoneted prisoners; forced prisoners to dig their own graves and then buried them alive; amputated prisoners' healthy arms and legs, one by one, for sport; force-fed prisoners dry rice and then filled their stomachs with water until their bowels exploded;
The Japanese "water cure" was to "waterboarding" as practiced at Guantanamo what rape at knifepoint is to calling your secretary "honey."
The Japanese version of "waterboarding" was to fill the prisoner's stomach with water until his stomach was distended -- and then pound on his stomach, causing the prisoner to vomit.
Or they would jam a stick into the prisoner's nose so he could breathe only through his mouth and then pour water in his mouth so he would choke to death.
Or they would "waterboard" the prisoner with saltwater, which would kill him.
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=31765
MAJOR difference between what we did and what the Japanese did. Huge difference.