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[theweaselking]

US Government finally decides that waterboarding is, in fact, torture, and prosecutes those who use it, and their commanding officers, and so on all the way up the chain, for war crimes.

And by "finally", I mean "in the 1940s", when they prosecuted the Japanese for doing it to Americans.

(and in 1898 when they prosecuted Americans for doing it to Flipinos and in 1983 when they prosecuted Americans for doing it to Americans, and so on and so on..)

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[dreamshade.livejournal.com]

I recall from somewhere hearing one GOP apologist on a talk show stating that those people weren't actually prosecuted for waterboarding. That was thrown in with a list of lots of other charges, like murder and rape and real torture and the like. No one was ever prosecuted for just waterboarding, so that makes it fine.

[elffin.livejournal.com]

And in the mid 1700's, when it was done to people suspected of being witches.

[torrain.livejournal.com]

Did they? (I mean, I'd heard the Spanish Inquisition and the East India Company did, but...

(...man, what a great choice of role models...)