Waterboarding, torture in my opinion

[satyrlovesong]

http://waterboarding.org/

Comments

[noplate]

*long toke* Yeah man, theres no fuckin way thats torture, its totally humane *longer toke*

[ribbin]

Having studied medieval and renaissance torture techniques, I can tell you right now that if it wasn't damned effective, they wouldn't have bothered with it back then. And yes, somehow, this sort of thing was deemed highly effective!

Besides, isn't there some UN resolution about no drowning or simulated drowning?

[satyrlovesong]

*sigh* I'm afraid that our Executive Branch threw out the Geneva Conventions about the same time they threw out habeas corpus.

[ribbin]

*sings*
It's springtime, for Hitler Dubya
And Germany America!

[fools_and_irish]

Mukasey says he doesn't know enough about waterboarding to specifically comment on it. I say, give him some firsthand experience! And for that matter, every other public official who has spoken in support of it. If it isn't torture, if it doesn't constitute a horrific trauma, then what objection could they possibly have to going through it? They have all the advantages over the prisoners. No questions to answer, knowledge that they aren't REALLY going to be drowned. A school nurse to provide aid if needed. Friends and loved ones in the room with them to show support. A sure knowledge that the ordeal will be over within 30 minutes, and that they will then go home with absolutely no further consequences.

Waterboard them all.

[whalejudge]

Did you see Keith Olbermann's special comment last night? He was talking about an official--State or Justice, I don't remember which--who DID exactly that in 2003 (I think), and made a report. Definitely torture was his conclusion. Bush fired him.

Of course it's torture

[aristopheles]

Some recent comments from a former JAG:
http://www.alternet.org/rights/66954/

A little on Khmer Rouge waterboarding:
http://www.davidcorn.com/archives/2006/09/this_is_what_wa.php

[cinnicat]

Of course it is torture.