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sellitman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-29-08 10:36 PM
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It's been called "Water Torture" for years.
Edited on Fri Feb-29-08 10:37 PM by sellitman
Water boarding sounds like a Parker Bros. game.

I suggest EVERYONE here and on the left start calling it what it really is.

Who is with me?






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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-29-08 10:41 PM
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1. language and the control of language
the problem is that we seem to be afraid of recapturing it as well
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sellitman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-29-08 10:43 PM
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2. The Republican Parallel Universe.
Is there an escape?
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-29-08 10:44 PM
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3. If we had the will
but I fear our "leaders" don`t care to escape
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C_U_L8R Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-29-08 11:00 PM
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4. we've got to all call evil by its name
and it is water torture
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hootinholler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-29-08 11:54 PM
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5. The water cure.
International tribunals sentenced Japanese soldiers to hang. Scroll down for explained photos apparently from Gitmo re sensory deprivation. There's also a piece in my journal regarding torture.

-Hoot
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troubleinwinter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-01-08 01:19 AM
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6. Thousands of soldiers were tried, executed or imprisoned, but more importantly perhaps...
Japanese war leaders were held accountable, charged under The Potsdam declaration of July 1945, arrested and tried as 'those who had "deceived and misled" the Japanese people into war.'

Twenty-eight high-ranking political and military leaders were indicted on 55 counts of "crimes against peace, conventional war crimes, and crimes against humanity."

"Class A" charges alleging "crimes against peace" were to be brought against Japan's top leaders who had planned and directed the war. Class B and C charges, which could be leveled at Japanese of any rank, covered "conventional war crimes" and "crimes against humanity," respectively.

Seven were executed, sixteen sentenced to life terms, two to lesser terms, two had died, and one was found insane.

Imagine that- High-ranking political and military leaders executed for deceiving and misleading the people into war. Condemned for crimes against peace and humanity and war crimes.

Let the trials begin.




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baby_mouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-01-08 06:48 AM
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7. CorrrrrrECT.

I like your habits.
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Perry Logan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-01-08 07:08 AM
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8. If a Democratic admnistration had been caught waterboarding, EVERYONE would be calling it torture.
Edited on Sat Mar-01-08 07:08 AM by Perry Logan
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