I guess if they've got no qualms about doing it to others (even kids, as has been reported in Iraq and Afghanistan) then sooner or later it's going to surface in their behaviour towards others. When you de-humanise others to such an extent, it ends up becoming hard to distinguish doesn't it? Kind of symbolic of the Western 'civilisation' in general. It has become so embroiled in it's own evil actions towards others, it is beginning to commit them against their own.
US soldier 'waterboarded' daughter, 4, because she couldn't recite alphabet
* By staff writers
* From: news.com.au
* February 08, 2010 10:01AM
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Human rights activists demonstrate waterboarding during a protest in New York. Joshua Tabor's chose the method to punish his daughter / AP Source: AP
* Girl was unable to recite her alphabet
* She held under water up to four times
* Torture gives sensation of drowning
A SOLDIER allegedly waterboarded his four-year-old daughter because she failed to recite her ABCs.
Joshua Tabor, 27, flew into such a rage that he submerged her face about three or four times, Britain's Daily Mail reported.
He admitted to police that he chose the CIA torture technique because his daughter was terrified of water.
Mr Tabor, who is a soldier at a base in Tacoma, Washington, is said to have grabbed his daughter and submerged her face-up into a bowl of water.
Police said that they saw bruising on the girl's back and scratch marks on her throat, and when they asked her how she got them, she said: "Daddy did it."
Police arrested Mr Tabor after neighbours reported seeing him walking around the neighbourhood wearing his Kevlar helmet and threatening to break windows.
President Barack Obama has outlawed waterboarding but it was used frequently by the CIA on terror suspects while George W. Bush was in office.
Suspects would have water poured over their faces, giving them the sensation that they were drowning.
Mr Tabor has been charged with second degree assault. His daughter has been taken into care.
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new.com.au