Brouhaha happens.
But sometimes you can get a good IQ test out of it -
John McCain said the following:
Following World War II war crime trials were convened. The Japanese were tried and convicted and hung for war crimes committed against American POWs. Among those charges for which they were convicted was waterboarding.
So, does that mean anybody was executed for waterboarding?
Paul Begala says that the quote means that the U.S. executed Japanese war criminals for waterboarding. Begala claimed:
Our country executed Japanese soldiers who waterboarded American POWs. We executed them for the same for the same crime we are now committing ourselves.
I sure hope Begala is being dishonest because it's scary to think he's that dumb.
Anyway, and more important, the new administration has come up with more effective ways to get information. (h/t nimos) So hopefully we'll be able to move past all this once we've executed everyone in the prior administration and done this frog-marching (whatever that is) that the left seems so intent on:
Afterthought: Assuming we can find out what it is; could frog-marching possibly be a war crime?
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