Re: What About Mukasy\'s Position on Waterboarding?
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Waterboarding doesn't cause physical harm. Just scares the hell out of you.
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This is not completely true even though proponents like to claim it is. Waterboarding can cause plenty physical harm as well as death. Waterboarding means you intentionally asphyxiate the person. It was used by such role model-worthy folks as the Spanish Inquisition, WWII Gestapo and Japanese troops (one of whom was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor by the U.S. in '47), and the Khmer Rouge.
Interestingly enough, the term used by the Nazis, Verschärfte Vernehmung, means enhanced interrogation techniques, the same term used by the Bush Administration for these types of techniques.
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