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To: HPilot who wrote (11746)4/23/2009 11:54:49 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 103300
 
From the "Spanish water torture" (Spanish Inquisition), to "Chinese water torture", to "hydropathic torture" (at Sing Sing), to court martial offenses in the Spanish American War, to waterboarding torture by Japanese troops (especially the Kempeitai), and by the Gestapo --- successfully prosecuted as War Crimes later by the Allies, to the French/Algerian War... the Vietnamese War... the Pinochet regime of Chile... The Khmer Rouge at Tuol Sleng prison in Phnom Penh, Cambodia... waterboarding torture has a long and varied history....

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To: HPilot who wrote (11746)4/23/2009 12:06:46 PM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps  Read Replies (6) | Respond to of 103300
 
Hugh, have you ever experienced a feeling of near death from a drownding incident? I did in September of 1955 in the Pacific Ocean off the Washington coast. There was 20 seconds of sheer terror. Yes, it would be torture.


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