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Contents 1 Made in the USA? 2 Water-cure in America 3 Water torture article 4 Sentence correct? 5 made in the US? 6 removed 7 Merge proposal dead?

[edit] Made in the USA?

According to the article, only Americans ever practiced this form of torture. - Brunnock 12:07, May 17, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Water-cure in America

It is historical fact that America practiced the water cure during the Philippine-American War I added extensive footnotes so no one can debate this. Travb 23:39, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Water torture article

This needs merging into or at least reconciling with Water torture, since this article's introduction refers to several different methods of water torture. Water torture should be the general article and Water Cure ought to be about one specific method. Ben Finn 13:06, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

Add the merge tags if it is important to you, otherwise there is a good chance it will never be done.Travb (talk) 21:40, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sentence correct?

"Sometimes water torture victims are raised upside down with water in their stomachs, pressing against the intestines, resulting in incredible pain and sometimes death."

This doesn't sound right, if you were to flip someone upside-down with a huge amount of water in their stomach, wouldn't the water-filled stomach "pull the intestines down" rather than "press up against" them? If they were right-side up the water-filled stomach would be pressed against the intestines causing discomfort. The sentence seems cotrary to the laws of gravity. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.205.218.60 (talk • contribs)

Please sign your posts with ~~~~ Thank you Best wishes, Travb (talk) 11:32, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] made in the US?

I suppose anything is possible, but the water cure sounds suspiciously similar to foie gras to me, and it would be hard for me to believe that it is a uniquely American invention. Americans may have been the most documented, but it seems difficult to believe that there would be no evidence to support this claim that it was used during the French-Algerian war. You'd also then have to ask the question: where did that picture come from, and what are they doing if not the water cure torture? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.205.218.60 (talk • contribs)

Please sign your posts with ~~~~ Thank you Best wishes, Travb (talk) 11:32, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] removed

The following was removed by an anon today:

There is some evidence that waterboarding was recently used in Abu Ghraib.{{Fact}}

Best wishes, Travb (talk) 11:32, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

I removed:

 It has also been used more recently during the War on Terror.[citation needed]

This is unsubstantiated. Perhaps the contributor was thinking about waterboarding, which is not the same as the water cure.--Kbk 04:33, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

This topic "water cure" is misleading and should be under water torture. There should be a true topic "water cure." Many ailments are healed just by proper hydration. If you go to any search engine, water cure comes up with water that heals most health problems.

[edit] Merge proposal dead?

No one has commented in nearly 5 months. If there are no objections, I will remove the proposal as other forms of water torture linked to in that article, e.g. dunking and waterboarding aren't proposed to be merged into water torture. BrokenSphere^{Msg me} 01:48, 29 August 2007 (UTC)