If you think the Waterboard is not "real torture", you are sorely misinformed.
That said, I support it's use on foreign enemies who are out of uniform, but not captured, uniformed soldiers.
How many times have you been waterboarded?
SERE schools have used this several times and in several ways to prepare our soldiers for possible capture. It produces huge amounts of fear and alarm, but does not cause any real physical damage. By doing it to OUR soldiers, once it has been done several times, it starts to lose it’s efficacy.
There is a difference about being informed, and actually knowing. So, who “informed” you that it was torture?