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

[Raymond Ingles]

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Aaron Kulkis <akulkis3 at hotpop.com> wrote:
> Ingles, Raymond wrote:
>  >> 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.

 Wow - I really have to spell that out? The articles, which you
apparently haven't read, talk about the prosecution of Japanese
officers who tortured captured Americans in WWII. Go read them.
There's no point in asking me to back up what I say if you don't
actually look at the backup I produce.

 Now, I hadn't heard about the U.S. officer prosecuted in Vietnam -
which, yes, happened after WWII - and that's why I said, quote: "I
learned something there", unquote. As in a new thing, *beyond* the
discussion about WWII.

 Geez, and *I'm* the one being called 'disingenuous'.