bodecea
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- #181
fact: waterboarding has been considered torture since the spanish inquisition.
Claiming something as a "fact" doesn't MAKE it a "fact." It is probably true that lots of folks have long considered waterboarding to be "torture." That doesn't mean all people have reached that same conlcuison. It's a BELIEF, by the way.
fact: The UNITED STATES considered it torture when the japanese used it on our troops.
Really? They considered it a violation of the rules of war, perhaps, but did they label it "torture" at that time? And if so, does that preclude reaching a different conclusion later on?
When you get right down to it, the question is not a proposition on a ballot where the majority rules. A thing is either torture or it is not. Waterboarding comes close. You say it crosses that line. I don't know. Maybe it does. (I'm not the sole judge, either.) But I don't buy it. I say (however ugly it may be) that it is something that doesn't actually qualify as torture.
claiming that waterboarding has been considered torture since the inquisition IS a fact.... and perhaps you should read up on the japanese war crimes trials and what we did to japanese officers who waterboarded OUR troops. Are you really SO hypocritical that you would claim we have the right to come to a different conclusion about waterboarding when we are the ones USING it instead of the ones it is used ON?
Oh pul- leeze! The answer to THAT question is quite obvious.