If one drops waterboarding from the equation the other methods used were things like keeping the captives in windowless rooms and turnning the lights off and on at different times and feeding them on schedules that got them totally disoriented. They didn’t know if they had been asleep for one hour or 8 hours. Eventually the mind plays some wild tricks and the disorientation leads to dramatically diminished ability to withhold important information. Is this torture? If the subject is not aware of why exactly he is disoriented and his mind is playing tricks, how is this torture?
Ann Coulter today on Hannity’s radio program clarified the issue on ‘water boarding’ and the Jpanese use of same. Well, not exactly the same since the Japanese filled a person full of water and jumped on their stomach, as well as submerging a person completely and drowning them once they got or didn’t get what they wanted. DemocRATS/LIEberals are demagoguing the issue with lies and deceit, as usual.