Your right Dyno. Even tho I did look for it I did miss it. So I apologize. But I did read it and am unimpressed, "and never saw a mention about 8".
But lets look at it this way. We didn't try and convict Japanese for waterboarding. We tried and convicted them for torture, some of which INCLUDED waterboarding. In other words if you were convicted of aggravated DUI for killing someone in a car accident, AND, also received a ticket for no insurance, would you go around telling people you were convicted of no insurance? Look at the wording,
Republican presidential candidate John McCain reminded people Thursday that some Japanese were tried and hanged for torturing American prisoners during World War II with techniques that included waterboarding.
If I remember right those same Japanese were the ones who conducted biological and chemical experiments on Allied prisoners. These same Japs used torture techniques so abhorrent we would blanch even thinking about them. And if they also used waterboarding then its a real stretch to say they were convicted of waterboarding. In fact its downright silly. Especially when you take into account the monstrous things the Japanese did.
And because of the monstrous things they did, as Al Qaeda does, we responded with brutality as well. While we went nowhere near their extremes we did murder their soldiers without mercy and we did level their country with a bombing campaign that set a new standard for the word "carnage".
We are losing the momentum in this war right now yaknow. It IS starting to turn into another Vietnam complete with the border refuge our enemies can run to and the Marquis of Queensbury rules of war our gullible and comfortable public are forcing on our military. Next we will have severe morale problems among soldiers who know they are just pawns, and that they are not allowed to win because the American public wants to go to bed at night feeling more moral then the next guy.
Well here you go Rich... though i doubt you'll take the time to read it-
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/02/AR2007110201170.html
Maybe you'll find this quote interesting-
After World War II, we convicted several Japanese soldiers for waterboarding American and Allied prisoners of war. At the trial of his captors, then-Lt. Chase J. Nielsen, one of the 1942 Army Air Forces officers who flew in the Doolittle Raid and was captured by the Japanese, testified: "I was given several types of torture. . . . I was given what they call the water cure." He was asked what he felt when the Japanese soldiers poured the water. "Well, I felt more or less like I was drowning," he replied, "just gasping between life and death."
or this-
Nielsen's experience was not unique. Nor was the prosecution of his captors. After Japan surrendered, the United States organized and participated in the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, generally called the Tokyo War Crimes Trials. Leading members of Japan's military and government elite were charged, among their many other crimes, with torturing Allied military personnel and civilians. The principal proof upon which their torture convictions were based was conduct that we would now call waterboarding.
Or maybe John McCain can convince you...
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/11/29/politics/main3554687.shtml
"There should be little doubt from American history that we consider that as torture otherwise we wouldn't have tried and convicted Japanese for doing that same thing to Americans," McCain said during a news conference.
