The same government that runs Guantanamo prison, known for it's illegal torture practices and imprisoning people with no charges?

Can't be!

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epolanski 3 days ago | parent [-]

Fun fact, when US prisoner of wars were water boarded by the Japanese, these got death sentences.

When a US soldier was photographed in Vietnam waterboarding a vietnamese PoW he got 22 years of prison.

Then came 2002 and rule of law stopped applying.

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sofixa 3 days ago | parent [-]

> When a US soldier was photographed in Vietnam waterboarding a vietnamese PoW he got 22 years of prison.

Really? Did he serve more than a month? Because if the people who committed My Lai for off with slaps on the wrist, I can't imagine something as trivial as waterboarding would get any serious consequences.

	▲	epolanski 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		I am referring to this is the picture [1] which was printed on the post in 1968. I am not able to find more information about the court martialed soldier, but the fact that he was sentenced to 22 years of prison is a quote from a lecture of professor Sarah Paine from the US Navy War Academy. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Waterboarding_a_captured_...