-> On 04 Jun 09  17:22:00, Bob Klahn got back to Dan Ceppa 
-> Re: Re-reexamining Tortur

 EC> illegal, and that it has been since 1898.  Everyone knew
 EC> all along that you were making that up.  There is no such
 EC> law.  And it took you a long time and a series of
 EC> non-responses before you admitted it.

 BK> If there is no law how did the US get away with charging,
 BK> trying, and punishing people for it?

That must have been the illegal part...  

 BK> I agree. And those who, when confronted with the fact that the
 BK> US did consider waterboarding of US POWs by the Japanese in WW2,
 BK> would not try to divert to the subject of other forms of torture
 BK> the Japanese inflicted.

What I find amazing is that they complain about liberal lawyer tricks 
yet they parse words tighter than Clinton did with the definition of 
"is".  

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