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My understanding is that people walk away from “waterboarding” physically unharmed. That makes waterboarding “torture” the same way fingernails on a blackboard is “torture”, or the relentless din of blaring heavy-metal music is “torture”.

No, “torture” is having your fingers lopped off one at a time with a pair of wire cutters. “Torture” is having bleach poured into your forced-open eyes. “Torture” is having your kneecaps shot. “Torture” is having parts of your body blow-torched to black cinder two square inches at a time. “Torture” is having a pair of tree-branch loppers taken to your genitals....

There are countless ways to inflict real torture, and part of the torture is the realization by the victim that his body will be forever damaged, forever missing pieces. Forever. THAT’s torture.

“Waterboarding” may be a gruelling interrogation technique, but it is not “torture”. When a terrorist is returned to his cell following waterboarding, he is physically unharmed - - crapping his pants, maybe, but physically unharmed. Even some of our own special forces and intelligence operatives undergo waterboarding as part of their training.

It amazes me that the scumbag liberals and their allies in the dying, socialist “mainstream” newsrooms have been able to redefine “torture” in America’s lexicon. But what amazes me more is that the cowardly “conservative” politicians in Washington D.C. have let the liberals get away with it. Once again the liberals have been allowed to appropriate a word, and without a fight.