On Thu, 07 May 2009 08:26:39 -0700, jps wrote:


The US executed Japanese soldiers who were found to have waterboarded
our troops.

Seems pretty clear that human physiology hasn't changed in 60 years, how
could our definition of this form of torture?

Ideology allows anything.

You don't have to go back 60 years. In the Vietnam War, US soldiers were
court-martialed for waterboarding.