[Vision2020] The U. S. Used to Prosecute for Water Boarding

[nickgier at adelphia.net]

Greetings:

Giving the lie to Bush and Cheney's claim that they are not torturing are the following facts from a recent article in the Guardian:

The U. S. has always recognized water boarding, a torture technique that goes back to the Inquisition, as a war crime. In 1901 Major Edwin Glenn got 10 years in prison for waterboarding a Phillipino insurgent. At the end of WWII Japanese soldiers were prosecuted for getting information from American G.I.s by simulated drowning. In 1968 an army officer was courtmarialled for being present at a waterboarding in Vietnam.

Nick Gier, Deeply Ashamed of Bush's "Leadership"