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To: combjelly who wrote (472727)	4/17/2009 10:28:45 AM
From: i-node	Respond to of 1575919

As should be obvious, being restrained makes a big difference. Mythbusters did an episode that covered this. The chosen torture was the Chinese water torture. Unrestrained, it was somewhat annoying. When applied to Kari while she was restrained and she like to have went bonkers. Mythbusters determination notwitstanding, the fact is that people are not injured by waterboarding when it is carried out correctly, and it lasts for only seconds, and it is not torture by any reasonable definition. There has been a great effort to define torture down to a point where any discomfort imposed on the detainee is "torture". The problem with this is that only the United States is affected by it, since everyone else ignores the rules wholesale. As a result, WE are restricted by it but nobody else is. Obama's incompetent action yesterday may well result in the neccesity of the US under future presidents creating new interrogation techniques that are less effective and even more uncomfortable for the detainee. Giving away our human intelligence gathering ability ought to be considered an act of treason.