"Earl Croasmun -> Dan Ceppa"  wrote in
news:28471$POL_INC{at}JamNNTPd:

 ~>>> Waterboarding is specifically defined as an act of torture.

 EC>>> No, actually it isn't.

 ~>> Really?  It was specifically made illegal since 1898.  It was
 EC> prosecuted ~> as such in WWII as well as in Viet Nam.

 EC> If you had been paying attention during the earlier threads on this
 EC> subject, you would know that the "water cure" of 1898
involved forcing
 EC> a person to ingest large amounts of salt water to the point of causing
 EC> damage to internal organs.  And it was not dealt with as torture,
 EC> because that section of the USC did not EXIST yet nor did the legal
 EC> definition of torture.  It was the subject of a court-martial.

Your propensity for semantics shows what a "Bush administration can do no
wrong" view you have.

Jesse Ventura was waterboarded.
And he stated flat out it *IS* torture.

He also said Cheny just called it something different, namely "enhanced
interrogation."
It still is torture.

And it does *NOT* work in questioning.

It only makes the tortured say what the sadistic torturers *WANT* to be
said.

Tell you what.
Let me waterboard you, you'd be confessing to planning 9-11 in less than an
hour.

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