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The United States government prosecuted Japanese soldiers for war crimes during WWII for waterboarding POW's. So, according the United States it is!
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YES,YES and YES. It is an extremely severe form of torture,and should be banned worldwide.It is cruel and has been proven,as torture does normally,achieve nothing for the victim will say anything to get the torturers to stop.It is a sort of Sadism.
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not unless you are good at it
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Yup.
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Wiki - "Waterboarding is a form of torture[1][2] consisting of immobilizing the victim on his or her back with the head inclined downwards, and then pouring water over the face and into the breathing passages. By forced suffocation and inhalation of water the subject experiences drowning and is caused to believe they are about to die.[3] It is considered a form of torture by legal experts,[4][5] politicians, war veterans,[6][7] intelligence officials,[8] military judges,[9] and human rights organizations.[10][11] As early as the Spanish Inquisition it was used for interrogation purposes, to punish and intimidate, and to force confessions.[12]" ---------------------- YES!
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It would be for me, I hate sports. (joking, relax)
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Well, let's see: Torture: Intentional causing of somebody's experiencing agony. Yup, I would say tying someone to a table and forcing them to simulate drowning definitely qualifies.
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If it weren't, the S&M people would be all about it by now.
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yes.
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OK...just about everybody's on board with the "Yes, it is!" Now, let me carry it a step forward. If the U.S. captured a known terrorist, uses the water boarding technique on him for 35 seconds (said to be the maximum norm for a subject to give up information) and the subject reveals that a jumbo jet will crash into, say, the Chicago Sears Building tomorrow, killing thousands of innocent human beings, are you still as concerned about the definitions of waterboarding and torture...and its use? I'm not saying yes or no...just interested in trying to determe whether or not the views are well thought out and reasonably objective.
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I have to say it is, but I think it should be legal. It is an efficient way to get information without causing physical pain to the person it is happening to.
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In International Penal Law, the Geneva Convention on Torture and Prisoners of War and according to the Human Rights Act it is definitely torture in any country that is a member of the United Nations or in any country that has adopted the Human Rights Act as part of their constitution as is the case of the United States.
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Ask Mankow if water boarding is torture. He was one of the right wing radio tools yelling about how water boarding isn't torture. Until he volunteered to be water boarded. He lasted about three seconds until he started crying like a baby and admitted it "was definitely torture"
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