re: #323 Rightwingconspirator

Uh, you broadened my point to dissolution. I said water boarding, specifically. Their guys were convicted of torture for that specifically. Our guys did waterboarding.

Where is the “false”?

I do agree that the sort of waterboarding the Japanese did was torture, just as the sort of surgery Jeffrey Dahmer did was murder.

The same acts done by a surgeon to save lives or by American agents to save lives is something very different.

Thus the caparison is false. There were many acts done by the WWII Japanese and Nazis that were war crimes as offensive acts. Americans also killed a lot of people in horrible ways as a defensive act. There is no absolute equivalency. intent is very important, as is degree.