waterboarding

On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 19:23:02 -0500, "Opus--Mark H. Bowen"
wrote:

You seen not everyone who is waterboarded survives the ordeal.

What are you trying to say, nitwit?

Waterboarding does not kill. Leaves no mark. Draws no blood. There
isn't even pain. If you would take waterboarding over decapitation,
you really are a nitwit.

Davie

"Dave LaCourse" wrote in message
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On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 19:23:02 -0500, "Opus--Mark H. Bowen"
wrote:

You seen not everyone who is waterboarded survives the ordeal.

What are you trying to say, nitwit?

That you pick out a typo ("seen" should have, obviously, read "see"), and
pretend that you didn't understand what I had written, says volumes about
your intellectual aptitude and your character.

It's not what I am saying, it's what you are saying that is so disturbing.

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Investigat...ory?id=1322866

Waterboarding does not kill. Leaves no mark. Draws no blood. There
isn't even pain. If you would take waterboarding over decapitation,
you really are a nitwit.

So you claim that no one has ever died as a result of waterboarding and that
it causes no pain, right.

Algerian War
"The technique was also used during the Algerian War (1954-1962). The French
journalist Henri Alleg, who was subjected to waterboarding by French
paratroopers in Algeria in 1957, is one of only a few people to have
described in writing the first-hand experience of being waterboarded. His
book The Question, published in 1958 with a preface by Jean-Paul Sartre (and
subsequently banned in France until the end of the Algerian War in 1962)
discusses the experience of being strapped to a plank, having his head
wrapped in cloth and positioned beneath a running tap:

The rag was soaked rapidly. Water flowed everywhe in my mouth, in my
nose, all over my face. But for a while I could still breathe in some small
gulps of air. I tried, by contracting my throat, to take in as little water
as possible and to resist suffocation by keeping air in my lungs for as long
as I could. But I couldn't hold on for more than a few moments. I had the
impression of drowning, and a terrible agony, that of death itself, took
possession of me. In spite of myself, all the muscles of my body struggled
uselessly to save me from suffocation. In spite of myself, the fingers of
both my hands shook uncontrollably. "That's it! He's going to talk," said a
voice.

The water stopped running and they took away the rag. I was able to
breathe. In the gloom, I saw the lieutenants and the captain, who, with a
cigarette between his lips, was hitting my stomach with his fist to make me
throw out the water I had swallowed.[29]

Alleg has stated that the incidence of "accidental" death of prisoners being
subjected to waterboarding in Algeria was "very frequent.""
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterboarding

Hey, think of it like this. You're in very despicable company: "The Khmer
Rouge at the Tuol Sleng prison in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, used waterboarding
as a method of torture between 1975 and 1979."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterboarding

Op


Davie