More from Cheney’s fantasy world
Dick Cheney on torture.
Cheney still maintains it didn’t happen. But in fact, Japanese soldiers were tried after World War II for waterboarding American troops. And during the Vietnam War, an American soldier was court-martialed for participating in water torture of a prisoner.
Cheney still maintains it didn’t happen. But in fact, Japanese soldiers were tried after World War II for waterboarding American troops. And during the Vietnam War, an American soldier was court-martialed for participating in water torture of a prisoner.
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