[mdlug-discuss] [mdlug] OT - IR jamming

[Aaron Kulkis]

Ingles, Raymond wrote:
>> From: Aaron Kulkis
> 
>>>  Combat is way different from non-combat. The Geneva Convention articles we're
>>> talking about cover when you're at war but *not* in combat.
>> If you're an illegal combatant, your status doesn't get elevated
>> just because you were captured.  You're still a complete piece
>> of **** as far the GC is concerned.
> 
>  Yes, but I was responding to you talking about someone "videotaping an attack".
> If that's not combat, could you clarify what you're talking about?
> 
>>>  We prosecuted it as torture after WWII. Works for me.
>> Waterboarding was prosecuted after WWII???
>>
>> If so, then why haven't the opponents publicized it?
> 
>  Um... they have.
> 
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/04/AR2006100402005.html
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/02/AR2007110201170.html
> http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15886834
> 
>  Actually, I learned something there:
> 
> "On Jan. 21, 1968, The Washington Post ran a front-page photo of a U.S. soldier supervising the waterboarding of a captured North Vietnamese soldier. The caption said the technique induced 'a flooding sense of suffocation and drowning, meant to make him talk.' The picture led to an Army investigation and, two months later, the court martial of the soldier."
> 

North Vietnamese in WW2???

You've gone off the deep end.