Waterboarding? What's that? Seems the Fort Worth Star Telegram has to explain it to their readers.

Towlie

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Waterboarding? What's that? Seems the Fort Worth Star Telegram has to explain it to their readers.

From http://www.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct2=us%2F1_0_s_3_0_t&usg=AFQjCNFWIqJgbzSyv-flu_aZ7kzA8WhM3Q&sig2=vCscqcl4bkVlEj7i3Dk2cg&cid=1251649887&ei=xMwhSqDsEKDI9ASwk7ZR&rt=HOMEPAGE&vm=STANDARD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.star-telegram.com%2F464%2Fstory%2F1122476.html">the Fort Worth Star Telegram site:

Cheney confirms that detainees were subjected to water-boarding

Fort Worth Star Telegram - ‎11 hours ago‎

By Jonathan S. Landay WASHINGTON�Vice President Dick Cheney has confirmed that US interrogators subjected captured senior al Qaida suspects to a controversial interrogation technique called "water-boarding," which creates a sensation of drowning.

There's a lot of interesting and important material in that article to discuss, but I thought that beginning paragraph sounded particularly odd, as if the Fort Worth Star Telegram believed its readers had never even heard of waterboarding and needed a definition.

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Psychic Consortium

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Sat May-30-09 07:42 PM
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1. If they cannot understand water boarding, maybe they can understand rape

and sexual assault.

Water boarding was only a part of the criminal activity.

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JenniferJuniper

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Sat May-30-09 07:53 PM
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2. We should all be calling it by the name it's gone by for centuries:

Water Torture

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Fovea

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Sat May-30-09 08:11 PM
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3. When my older brother did it to me as a kid.

He called it *Chinese* Water Torture.
He learned about it as a UDT "frogman".
Perhaps that is why he section 8d out of the Navy.

Rest assured, it's torture, and we executed the people who did it to us.

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Towlie

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Sat May-30-09 09:22 PM
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4. Chinese water torture is different. It's just drops on your forehead that don't even bother you.

Read the Wikipedia article about it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Water_Torture

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cherokeeprogressive

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Sat May-30-09 09:28 PM
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5. I'm wondering how long the Mythbuster dudes did it.

Edited on Sat May-30-09 09:29 PM by cherokeeprogressive

I spent a long evening on watch with a Naval Aviator years ago. He described for what SERE School consisted of. He had a soft jet of air blown on his cheek for how long, he didn't know. After what seemed to be at least a few hours to him, the soft jet of air blowing on his cheek felt like a drill. He went so far as to say that if they told him they lost his paperwork and had to go through the school again, he'd gladly turn his wings in.

I'm thinking that water drops, over a period of hours might feel the same way, if not worse. "just drops on your forehead" doesn't go far enough to describe what it's really like.

My $.02

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Fovea

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Sat May-30-09 09:37 PM
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6. all I can tell you is that is what he called it.

And that is what I knew the technique as all my life.

My brother, ninth grade drop out that he was did not make a reliable source for facts and figures.
As far as I'm concerned, you could call it a chili dog, and it would have made it no less nightmarish.

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KamaAina

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Sat May-30-09 09:40 PM
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7. My (interim) boss thought that it was something like boogie-boarding!

:dunce: :dunce: :dunce: :dunce: :dunce: :dunce: :dunce: :dunce:

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