Today's Debate Over Waterboarding

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Today's Debate Over Waterboarding
Omaha World-Herald | March 01, 2008

WASHINGTON - Today's debate over waterboarding as a technique for interrogating terrorism suspects eerily echoes one that's a century old.

During the U.S. Army's battles with the Filipino insurrection, an Omaha soldier's letter published by The World-Herald on May 13, 1900, described the "water cure" being used on prisoners.

"They swell up like toads," A.F. Miller wrote. "I'll tell you it is a terrible torture."

Miller's letter from the Philippines to a friend in the United States explained how soldiers would force prisoners to disclose the location of hidden weapons.

"Now this is the way we give them the water cure: Lay them on their backs, a man standing on each hand and each foot, then put a round stick in the mouth, and pour a pail of water in the mouth and nose, and if they don't give up pour in another pail," he wrote.


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