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?
I'm talking about a legal definition which in this case sets a very high standard.
If you were right, then the instructors at SERE are breaking federal criminal law every time they do that exercise. So, according to you, they are criminals?
Do you even know what you are talking about?