A simple challenge for the lizard bitch

Lizard bitch Cao claims that “Waterboarding is not torture”.

How, then, does she reconcile that claim with the fact that after WWII, the US and its allies tried and convicted several Japanese soldiers for waterboarding their prisoners?

After World War II, an international coalition convened to prosecute Japanese soldiers charged with torture. At the top of the list of techniques was water-based interrogation, known variously then as “water cure,” “water torture” and “waterboarding,” according to the charging documents. It simulates drowning.

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In a recent journal essay, Judge Evan Wallach, a member of the U.S. Court of International Trade and an adjunct professor in the law of war, writes that the testimony from American soldiers about this form of torture was gruesome and convincing. A number of the Japanese soldiers convicted by American judges were hanged, while others received lengthy prison sentences or time in labor camps.

This is merely another example of the moral incompetence for which Cao and its fellow wingnuts are justly infamous. It’s clear that these monster-Americans believe that torture is perfectly acceptable if we’re the ones doing it. In fact, if we do it, we get to redefine torture as not-torture. They can easily justify any act, no matter how depraved, in this way.