Bush Era Torture Memos Released

[The Ghost of RubangB]

Tyrannical said:

The Ghost of RubangB said:
Huh, America considered it a war crime and convicted the Japanese for waterboarding in WW2.

Funny how we get to change our definitions of war crimes when we commit them.

 

Why not read the entire article, including the discussion page? You are really cherry picking your facts.

Here's something I bet you missed.

All special operations units in all branches of the U.S. military employ the use of waterboarding as part of survival school (SERE) training, to psychologically prepare soldiers for the eventuality of being captured by the enemy forces.^[74]

The first 6 words were "Waterboarding is a form of torture."  That's what you should be arguing, if your argument is in fact that waterboarding is not torture.  My argument is that waterboarding is torture.  Obama and McCain both agreed on this during the debates.