Video and informative article on Waterboarding

[Anonymoose]

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/f...ns_video200808

I'd say it's torture. :-/

[Underwater Ophelia]

I don't understand what's awful about it.
I mean, obviously it is, but it seems like one of those things you have to experience.

[Barfing_Rat]

That look fun!

Seriously... I think war is a dirty business and others who aren't involved should stay out of it. It's too easy to sit at home and talk about how war should be fight and everything but when you're on a battle field, it is a entirely different world and your state of mental will completely change.
This remind me of cocky high school seniors, they think they'll get a good career and make six digits a year and buy a house in less a year until they move out then they get struck in the face with reality.

[CptSternn]

Waterboarding was invented by the Spanish Inquisition. That right there speaks volumes.

Another historical tib bit - 8 Japanese officers were executed by the US after WW2 because they had water boarded P.O.W.s. The US and the UN ruled waterboarding WAS torture, and the US had the authority to try those men for war crimes since they actively participated in torture.

[Apathy's_Child]

Originally Posted by Barfing_Rat

That look fun!

Seriously... I think war is a dirty business and others who aren't involved should stay out of it. It's too easy to sit at home and talk about how war should be fight and everything but when you're on a battle field, it is a entirely different world and your state of mental will completely change.
This remind me of cocky high school seniors, they think they'll get a good career and make six digits a year and buy a house in less a year until they move out then they get struck in the face with reality.

Yeah! No one who hasn't killed a man with their bare hands on a battlefield has any business having an opinion on the subject. What presumption.

[JCC]

Originally Posted by Barfing_Rat

Seriously... I think war is a dirty business and others who aren't involved should stay out of it. It's too easy to sit at home and talk about how war should be fight and everything but when you're on a battle field, it is a entirely different world and your state of mental will completely change.

Are you black? If not, what right do you have to have an opinion on the rights of black people? Were you an enemy of the Nazis circa the Holocaust? Then what right do you have to condemn the Holocaust?

I could go on all day with how your opinion sucks.

[Apathy's_Child]

Originally Posted by JCC

Are you black? If not, what right do you have to have an opinion on the rights of black people? Were you an enemy of the Nazis circa the Holocaust? Then what right do you have to condemn the Holocaust?

I could go on all day with how your opinion sucks.

But you are not Barfing Rat, therefore, you have no right to an opinion on BR's opinion.

Yay for the total inertia of society!!