No more watching Bridge Over the River Kwai and being appalled

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

by how Alec Guiness is treated by the Japanese. A little time in a hotbox is really just a slightly coercive technique. Since everything is now Ex-Post Facto, I think a few dictators and war criminals are due some apologies.

[KnaveRupe]

1. When do they release Lynndie England and Charles Graner?

Obviously, they did nothing wrong; since it's all retroactively ok. I wonder if their lawyers are all over this?

[Ganja Ninja]

3. Excellent point. n/t

[LostinVA]

2. Waterboarding is way worse than a hotbox, I bet

From descriptions I've read of people enduring both.

[zbdent]

4. I'm sure that Admiral who ran with the Ferengi candidate a few years back

is happy that the standards have been lowered on torture ...

[NewJeffCT]

5. I know, if Guiness can walk out of the hot box

how bad could it be? Just a harmless fraternity prank.



:sarcasm:

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

6. Torture always defined the BAD guys in countless movies

guess they will all have to be remade to our new standards by Disney.