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   jgcp1 said, 6 months ago

   Please remind me, how many tens of thousands died on the Guantanimo Death March? What we did was wrong, but to compare it the the Japanese atrocities of WWII is even worse.

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   rvernon said, 6 months ago

   Uh… isn’t the point that waterboarding is something that’s done by the Imperial Japanese, who were perfectly comfortable with committing atrocities?

   If it’s something they were ok with doing, that should make us question whether we should be ok with it.

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   3hourtour said, 6 months ago

   …we didn’t know any better back then…Happy Cartoonst’s day…

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   KingRat said, 6 months ago

   Most of the people that were tortured by the Japanese would have considered it a nice day if they were only waterboarded.

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   wndrwrthg said, 6 months ago

   The fact remains that waterboarding was a charge in their trials.

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   Yukoneric said, 6 months ago

   They really taught us well.

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   Ike SCHAEF said, 6 months ago

   How many did the Japanese waterboard in Manila, Nanking, Korea, Burma etc??
   Considering that the murder of women, children and infants as well as cannabalism, slavery and the MURDER of thousands of POWs and civilians were just a few of the war crimes practiced by the Japanese, this is a really stupid anology/comparison. Time to go back to school, Darrin. And try reading the books this time. You don’t know everything YET!

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   elikelp said, 6 months ago

   Wow, the point, my dear angry fellow readers, is that in 1949we definitely considered waterboarding torture.We signed the Geneva conventions and formed consensus with the international community that certain behavior, including torture, was never excusable.
   The Bush Administration made America a Pariah state and undermined any credibility we had left in the international community.

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   elikelp said, 6 months ago

   I think Darrin was paying plenty of attention, whether in or out of school,and I think he’s a blessing.
   I also think he is a voice crying out, prophetically, among fools.
   Dudes, be Nineveh, not Sodom, kay?
   Thanks Darrin.

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    Ike SCHAEF said, 6 months ago

    Nonsense.If he (or you)thinks there is the slightest basis for comparison, you both are tragically disrespecting the memory of the hundreds and thousands of innocent souls murdered by the Japanese.

    Who are the fools?

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    foxglove16 said, 6 months ago

    The point, as wndrwrthg and elikelp already said is if it was used as a charge in Japanese warcrimes tribunal, then it was torture then and is still torture and was still torture in the Bush era.
    I think it’s a pathetic statement of your morals, or lack of them, to rationalize it away with the equivalent of “Oh yeah? Well they did worse things so our using just one of their techniques doesn’t count.”

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    Doctor Toon said, 6 months ago

    Right is right and wrong is wrong.
    Each person should know in their own heart which is which for themself.

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    elikelp said, 6 months ago

    Doctoroon, right is right and wrong is wrong and unfortunately we need laws for some people to tell the difference!

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    headspot29 said, 6 months ago

    Waterboarding is considered torture. It was considered torture then and it is considered torture now. If we want to take the moral high ground in any case we have to lead by example.Torture is not a case of “Do as I say not as I do.” And let’s not forget the tens of thousands of Japanese Americans who were needlessly interned in camps in our own country for no other reason than their heritage. Equal treatment has never been our strong point.

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    Ron said, 6 months ago

    Ye Gads! I’m sure he would have preferred having his fingernails pulled out!

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    BrendanR said, 6 months ago

    “Ye Gads! I’m sure he would have preferred having his fingernails pulled out!”…………………………………………………………

    I’m assuming that’s supposed to be clever? Why don’t you go back in time and say that to the face of the American prisoner of war who testified at the Tokyo War Crimes trial about how the Japanese waterboarded him up to half a dozen times every day?

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    Ron said, 6 months ago

    No one has yet asked me what I think water-boarding is… Well - it is torture, and I am reluctant to say this, but I think it was necessary to learn of the second wave of attacks aimed at LA.
    So I ask you, do any of you think that it would have been OK to allow those attacks to occur if water-boarding\torture were the only way to learn of them.
    I admit that Jefferson did say that the Tree of Liberty had to occasionally be watered with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
    Does that cover this? If it does, then I will consider water-boarding torture that should not be allowed.