Democrats are busy telling a pernicious lie on every TV program I see these days, something to the effect that Japanese were prosecuted and convicted for subjecting POWs to waterboarding. Ann Coulter has investigated this obvious lie. Obvious to anyone who has read about the cruelty of the Japanese, who would not have wasted time with something so trivial as waterboarding as done by the CIA. The Japanese engaged in torture for the fun of it, not to extract information. Years ago I read about the water torture the Japanese used and it didn't involve simulated drowning. Rather it involved sticking a hose down the victim's throat and turning the water on full force. The victim's usually didn't survive. It didn't really matter because the Japanese just wanted a fake confession from him.