2007-12-12 05:03:45 · 8 answers · asked by American citizen and taxpayer 7 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
The Japanese cases concerned POWs, not enemy combatants.
2007-12-12 07:09:06 · update #1
No. Waterboarding is considered to be a coercive interrogation technique. Before the CIA decided to use it on some enemy combatants in U.S. custody they briefed the chairmen and the ranking members (along with the majority and minority staff directors) of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees. Those are the committees of jurisdiction which exercise oversight of intelligence agencies. There was no objection voiced by any of those officials.
The intelligence gathered from the use of that technique on two individuals led to the "rolling up" of several terrorist cells and the blunting of over 100 plots to carry out additional attacks within the U.S and against U.S. interests abroad, including the planned assassination of former Presidents Clinton and Carter.
The only reason this has become a "hot button" topic is that the story of the use of this technique moved from deep inside the Washington Post to the front page in the past month or so.
2007-12-12 07:31:00 · answer #1 · answered by desertviking_00 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No.
wtfdubbya doesn't know what he's talking about.
The Japanese used a technique called the "Water Cure." It bears a resemblance to waterboarding only in that it also uses water. Water is forced down the throat and into the stomach. The distended stomach is painful in itself. Often this is followed by beating on the stomach, furhter pain, proabable vomiting and the possibility of death if the stomach should rupture.
Sometimes done with bile or urine instead of water.
2007-12-12 13:30:30 · answer #2 · answered by RTO Trainer 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
i already answered this question with source material the first time you posted this same question a few weeks back. you didn't like the source materiel then and you probably wont now, but here it is again.
by the way, you keep making a distinction between P.O.W's and Enemy Combatants.
once an Enemy Combatant is taken into custody, they become a P.O.W.
it seems to me you are playing word games
2007-12-12 15:34:38 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
No they have not.
Typically, it takes place in facilities away from US soil.
2007-12-12 13:11:47 · answer #4 · answered by MrOrph 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, and we executed Japaneese soldiers for doing just that after WWII.
If that was justice then what do we do to members of our own Government if and when they are convicted of the same crime?
I say send them to the Hauge to answer to the world!
2007-12-12 13:12:40 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋
I hope not
2007-12-12 13:07:43 · answer #6 · answered by wacky weed 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No
2007-12-12 13:10:12 · answer #7 · answered by Colonel 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, they have not and should not.
2007-12-12 13:07:28 · answer #8 · answered by Jennifer H 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋