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	Name:	MartiniMan -
	Subject:	something of interest
	Date:	6/9/2009 8:40:43 AM

Saying we prosecuted the Japanese for waterboarding is like saying we prosecuted Himmler for false advertising. Japanese soldiers after WWII were prosecuted for "torturing", including various water methods of which one would be the same as waterboarding. But waterboarding was actually the least harmful of all the things they did to our soldiers. I defy you to show me an example of a Japanese soldier that was prosecuted only for waterboarding. This is a classic example of cherry picking and misrepresenting the truth although I give you credit Lady, at least there was a shred of fact in your post. A true first!

The fact is we waterboard our own soldiers in their training. Besides, the current administration via Eric Holder (the Attorney General), has defended this training in testimony to Congress. In his words, the reason we are not torturing our own soldiers when we waterboard them is that we don't intend to harm them. That is exactly the idea of waterboarding terrorists.....we intend only to get information out of them while not harming them! Thousands and potentially hundreds of thousands of lives in Los Angeles were saved because we waterboarded two known, confirmed terrorists and obtained information critical to stopping the planned attacks.

I know you would gladly sacrifice thousands of people you don't know so you can be self righteous but not me.