[wmileo]

".this is war crime material in my book. The end does not justify the means."

I agree. It is the kind of action I would expect from a totalitarian regime and not the USA.

However, placing this project 24 into context for today, Is water boarding better or worse?

[Scooter100]

There are far worse tools at their disposal these days than water, which is certainly the cheapest. More permanently disabling methods such as brain surgery, pharmaceuticals, or microwave intrusion into the brain are part of the expanding kit.

War sickens me. But when wartime philosophy spills over into peacetime, is applied to one's own citizens, by a corrupt leadership, then we abandon morality and civility and enter a world of savages.

[fatman6502002]

Oh BS. Fighting and winning a war demands cruel and sometimes immoral acts, its just the way it is. If you can’t bring yourself to understand this fact of life then don’t bother reading about it; just let the rough men and women who protect you do their job without your moral preening and virtue signaling. And as far as waterboarding terrorists we capture, not a problem at all. I would say this to our military leaders, waterboard them till they decide to cooperate, then squeeze every bit of info from them and when your done put the terrorist animals in a helicopter fly them 50 miles out to sea and throw them out, they’ll be good bait, sharks need to eat too.