Your opinion is beyond dispute to Dems and John McCain. Even McCain tacitly admitted it didn't meet the definition when he insisted on new legislation that in effect made the Army regulation on treatment of prisoners federal law. The Army reg did not just prohibit torture, but requires humane treatment and prohibits physical harassment. The Army reg has been applied to all uniformed services. That is why it was legal for CIA to waterboard but not legal for the uniformed services.
It's certain that you have never been on a waterboard or seen it's application in real life.
You're probably parroting Ollie North's insistence that it's not torture.
I've been on the waterboard at SERE in Warner Springs. I am certain I could convince a jury of you's that it meets any definition of torture...by demonstration.
Certain.
Men will do whatever is in their power to ensure they are never "taken alive" so that they never have the experience it again.
Every volunteer in CIA testing capitulated within 14 seconds.
Every SERE member who was ALLOWED to capitulate would do so in 20 seconds or less.
Every one.
But it's not torture? Do you even have a clue what the hell you are talking about?