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Note: In 1984, the United Nations made torture illegal. Enhanced Interrogation is a term coined by the Bush Administration.

• Water boarding was first used in the 14th century. It's been used in a variety of ways. Starting by rapidly filling the stomach with water, or slowly pouring water directly into the throat. During the Enlightenment (1700s), the method was frowned upon in the public light, but made a resurgence in the 19th century.
• Many governments have been using water boarding since WWII. Like... Japan and Cambodia
• Beyond forced labor, inmates were forced to attempt to survive under extreme conditions
• Water Boarding, an example of enhanced interrogation used in Guantanamo Bay.

Gas Chamber used in Auschwitz concentration camp:

• Used to kill people that were deemed too weak.
• Nazis told them they were going to take a shower, but they gased the prisioners to death with Zyklon-B pellets.
• Zyklon-B pellets were commonly used for Pest control, Hitler did this to annihilate all European Jews.
• The Black and white picture is a picture of the Zyklon- B pellets
• http://judaism.about.com/od/holocaust/ss/ausch_tour_5.htm

• The German military also used a variety of other techniques including sensory deprivation, minimal ration of food and water, uncomfortable or hard beds, sensory overload through loud noises and bright lights, beatings, and emotional abuse.
• In war crimes trials conducted after the war, these techniques were ruled illegal in several criminal courts and some nations have signed resolutions against torture.
• http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-enhanced-interrogation.htm

Medical Experiments

• Josef Mengele conducted expirements on children and the "limits on the human body."
• Drugs were tested, they were frozen and timed, ink was injected in their eyes to change their eye color and other types of brutal surgeries
• Doctors would put jews the the icy cold water so they could see how long the body take it.
• No anastesia was used. Everything was done while they were awake.
• http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005168

Modern Day Torture:

• Guantanamo Bay is where the United States keeps suspects of terrorism,
• Inmates, when not occupied by "Enhanced Interrogation," are kept in a 8' x 12' pen, with nothing from the outside world.
• During the Hamdan trials, the prisoner received 2 calls from his family and no visits in 6 years.
• Other techniques used include the use of culture and physical humiliation, emotional strain, exhuastion and controlled drowning, asphysxia (limiting oxygen into the body), and electrocution.
• Prisoners have also testified to beatings, controlled "stress situations which keep the body in a strain and stess, and the use of military weapons and dogs for intimidation.
• http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-enhanced-interrogation.htm
• Enhanced Interrogation was a big issue during the Bush administration whether or not it was morally right.
• Critics of enhanced interrogation techniques have taken to saying that Americans don’t torture, period – meaning in this instance that we do not engage in coercive interrogation techniques ranging from sleep deprivation to prolonged loud noise and/or bright lights to waterboarding.
• Anyone who holds the opposite view is a moral cretin and guilty of “arrant inhumanity.
• Waterboarding is a technique that has been routinely used in the training of some U.S. military personnel.
• Waterboarding was not used randomly and promiscuously, but rather on three known terrorists. And of the thousands of unlawful combatants captured by the U.S., fewer than 100 were detained and questioned in the CIA program, according to Michael Hayden, President Bush’s last CIA director.
• http://www.commentarymagazine.com/article/morality-and-enhanced-interrogation-techniques/
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Usefullness of Torture Techniques (Controversy)

• The claims of enhanced torture techniques are unpleasant but are a necessary tool.
• There is no solid statistics for or against torture. All testimonies for/against are generally opinionated and cannot be based on facts.
• http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-enhanced-interrogation.htm

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