12-09-2008, 02:07 AM
Wikipedia wrote:
Waterboarding was designated as illegal by U.S. generals in the Vietnam War.[61] On January 21, 1968, The Washington Post published a controversial photograph of two U.S soldiers and one South Vietnamese soldier participating in the waterboarding of a North Vietnamese POW near Da Nang.photo[62] The article described the practice as "fairly common".[62] The photograph led to the soldier being court-martialled by a U.S. military court within one month of its publication, and he was discharged from the army.
Wikipedia: Waterboarding