Is this torture?
http://content1.clipmarks.com/conten...4-3A07CF501B7C
Would you let a US citizen die rather than do this to extract information?
Would I let a US Citizen die?
What would I honestly care? Piles of US citizens die everyday in their everyday lives in the US and in most cases, at the hands of other US citizens.
Waterboarding is torture, just as tossing someone on a rack and stretched out, or using electric shocks..... it's all a form of torture and just because a certain technique has a remote or nill chance of causing death, doesn't mean it's not still torture.
And it's common sense to most that torture is not the greatest way of getting true information..... and to add on top of that, in most courts of law, any information obtained through torture can not be used and will be thrown out of court, thus useless.
As a US example, look at the underwear bomber or this guy who just attempted to blow up a car in NY..... as far as I'm aware, neither is being tortured, yet they're spilling the beans and giving out plenty of valuable information..... thus proving torture isn't necessary.
The whole argument about waterboarding being justified because it was done to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed 183 times and got useful information out of him is a lame attempt to justify torture, because it's simply not proof that no other technique would have worked just as effective or even better then waterboarding.
All torture is, is an excuse for someone to enact their own form of punishment and suffering on someone for their own sadistic amusement and when you torture someone, you're no better off then the person who killed that one US citizen.
And even if it was a Canadian citizen or a citizen of any other nation, my position would remain the same..... Torture is what occurs when someone can't separate their emotional bias in a situation and can't remain professional.
They're not professional, they're just a thug who likes to beat up and make defenseless/tied up people suffer.
