Yes.

Yes. Which is why Jamal al-Fadl's testimony about there being a big secret organisation named 'Al Qaeda' is unreliable.

Yes, very much so. It give me a creepy feeling in my stomach just thinking about waterboarding. *shudder*

According to military experts, vietnam vets who went through actual torture, and anyone who's undergone waterboarding-yes. However As it causes no lasting physical harm and *I* have not been through it personally I am not one to make that judgement, give me a few days and I'll get back to you.

No! But I do think beheading is.

Yes. Definitely

Without a shadow of a doubt.

No, I KNOW it is.

You've convinced me. I think we would have gotten the same information from KSM if we'd made him sit on a hard chair for 30 minutes.

I can't help but think you'd consider a day of splitting firewood torture.

Sure. I'm enough of a vet to know when a vet wannabe in a pro-surrender march doesn't know which side of his cap to wear his rank on. Seems like there are a lot of vets out there these days. I don't think I ever ran across a vet who had a problem about doing a harmless procedure on someone to get info that could save American lives.

I think that like just about everything else on earth this is not a simple black and white choice. There are certainly degrees of torture, some of which leave the prisoner maimed for life physically or mentally. Waterboarding does neither and if it can be used successfully to garner information that will save innocent lives I am fine with it.

Of course I do! What is to think about? Read the following description and then tell us that waterboarding is NOT torture! Waterboarding From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Waterboarding is a form of torture that consists of immobilizing a person on their back with the head inclined downward and pouring water over the face and into the breathing passages. Through forced suffocation and inhalation of water, the subject experiences the process of drowning and is made to believe that death is imminent. In contrast to merely submerging the head face-forward, waterboarding almost immediately elicits the gag reflex. Although waterboarding does not always cause lasting physical damage, it carries the risks of extreme pain, damage to the lungs, brain damage caused by oxygen deprivation, injuries (including broken bones) due to struggling against restraints, psychological injury, and death. The psychological effects on victims of waterboarding can last for years after the procedure. Waterboarding was used for interrogation at least as early as the Spanish Inquisition to obtain information, coerce confessions, punish, and intimidate. It is considered to be torture by a wide range of authorities, including legal experts, politicians, war veterans, intelligence officials, military judges, and human rights organizations. In 2007 waterboarding led to a political scandal in the United States when the press reported that the CIA had waterboarded extrajudicial prisoners and that the Justice Department had authorized this procedure. The CIA is known to have used waterboarding on at least three Al-Qaida suspects: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri.

It can be. It all depends on whether your behind a boat or using a kite.

Yes I do but I also feel its very necessary. I think that all the information we are privy to these days is weakening our country. In war and to remain safe sometimes terrible things must be done. It sux -but in this world we live in its be strong or be conquered. When you think about waterboarding or any other horrible things that must be done to extract information to save lives ask yourself this. If your child/spouse/parent was kidnapped and facing certain death an you caught the kidnappers accomplice-how far would you go to find out the information you needed to save them?

Absolutely!

Well of course it is..BUT, when compared to the torture being done to our citizens..our soldiers and the civilians in other countries it pales in comparison. How about instead of water boarding we just do like the other countries..Maybe stand em in a tub of water with jumper cables attatched to their testicles and the other end hooked to an electrical source..or having an electrical current shoved up their @ss..or hell even better..lets just cut their heads off on film as they do in other countries to our people. These are people who would do this to the sons and daughters of americans if they had a chance. Is it right..not really..but it could be alot worse. The prisoners we have are being fed, clothed, and are being kept alive..how many american pow's can say the same?

no. but only as a last resort.

Is having your head cut off with a dull knife while on video for international TV better?

Those who have been waterboarded (even under controlled conditions) unequivocally assert that it is torture. If someone wants to be waterboarded under uncontrolled conditions and then tell me what they think, I will listen. http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/08/hitchens200808?currentPage=1 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kaj-larson/a-lesson-for-mukasey-why_b_70651.html http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=en-US&brand=msnbc&vid=feb4ba2f-9822-478e-8576-25e20139f35a

It can't possibly be, because it is seen to be a legitimate tool of US security organisations and the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights forbids that sort of stuff, but wait a minute, is the USA a signatory to the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights?

Dude water boarding is like totally narly awh awh

The legal definition of torture: . http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode18/usc_sec_18_00002340----000-.html . That IS the definition. Period. You can 'feel' anything you like. You can 'think' what ever you want. You can want it to be something else. You can work to get it changed. It is what it IS. You're arguing with a stop sign. . According to the definition in law, waterboarding itself is NOT torture. If used until it inflicts permanent mental harm, THEN it's torture. . This is why President Bush isn't going to get tried for authorizing torture. His opponents gain advantage with their slanderous accusations by the general ignorance of this definition, and would lose it all if there were actually a trial. .

Yes... Anyone who says otherwise should have it done on them.

I would have to witness it to know for sure, but it sounds torturous... Although, if I had a choice between that and bamboo shoots under my nails, I'd go for the water boarding. As long as there is war there will be torture. To cause pain to one person to get information that could save thousands of lives?... Anyone who wouldn't do that, wouldn't go to war in the first place.

btw Obama is continuing methods such as these.

You betcha I do. Happy Thursday! :)