[muawiyah]

You didn't read the entire post, and no, it is not torture. The key ingredient is a natural reflex and all of us have undergone it one time or the other. Doesn't mean it's comfortable, but it keeps us FROM drowning.

Real torture results in permanent and real injury.

Deviations from that standard are deceptive and to be avoided.

[Callahan]

Just what is Mancow trying to prove here? Nobody said its supposed to be comfortable. It’s designed to break the perp’s will not toughen him up. If that was the goal we’d make them do push-ups and squat thrusts. Maybe he should check out the alternatives used by the opposition. Like rusty machetes to the neck.

[Captain Kirk]

So....I take it that your answer is that you would give Obama the right to right to waterboard at will people he deems “terrorists” or “suspected terrorists,” right?