16 Dec 2014 2:34 pm
I wasn't referring to legal precedent, but to informed opinion.Misty » 16 Dec 2014 2:24 pm » wrote: I'm talking about throughout history Jackhole. Waterboarding has always been considered torture going back to the Spanish Inquisition.
President Theodore Roosevelt ordered the court-martial of General Jacob H. Smith for using waterboarding in the Philippines.
We also court-martial our own soldiers for using it on North Vietnamese POWs.
And in 1981, a Texas Sheriff and three of his deputies were tried and convicted for using waterboarding to force confessions.
The sheriff was sentenced to ten years in prison, and the deputies to four years.
Again, I acknowledge that the rules were bent in defense of the country, just like the absurd SCOTUS decision upheld FDR's imprisonment of 10's of thousands of innocent Americans.
But hack that you are, you'll bleat forever in fake outrage.
