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Old 04-27-2009, 02:47 PM   #9
Undertoad
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Originally Posted by one guy's opinion in the WaPo
Leading members of Japan's military and government elite were charged, among their many other crimes, with torturing Allied military personnel and civilians. The principal proof upon which their torture convictions were based was conduct that we would now call waterboarding.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterboarding#World_War_II
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Originally Posted by Wikipedia
In this [Japanese] version [of waterboarding], interrogation continued during the torture, with the interrogators beating the victim if he did not reply and the victim swallowing water if he opened his mouth to answer or breathe. When the victim could ingest no more water, the interrogators would beat or jump on his distended stomach.
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Originally Posted by our smarmy little intelligence expert
Please don't tell me you didn't already know this.
Isn't she so cute! being all smug and pretending to know stuff!

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