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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: combjelly who wrote (441462)12/19/2008 1:33:55 PM
From: i-node  Read Replies (3) of 1577122
 
You seem to want to ignore the cases where we prosecuted our own people for waterboarding.

Why is that?

I'm not aware of them. If you want to post the facts and circumstances I'll be pleased to comment on it.

It is important to realize that when you have a person who has hit, kicked, burned, bashed, beaten, and waterboarded someone, a conviction for torture makes no statement about waterboarding, generally.

Also, there are vast differences between the techniques applied in waterboarding. A person could be drowned by it if applied intensively which would obviously be [at least] torture. OTOH, apparently, the treatment given to the three bad guys including KSM was brief and did not in any way endanger them.

It is not painful and does not cause mental anguish for short-term exposure, hence, not torture.
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