It's funny, you see people who haven't experienced it saying it isn't torture, because they 'don't think it inflicts pain', yet they aren't sure, so how can they say it doesn't inflict pain?
Now take a look at hiredgun's link to the SWJ and Malcolm Nance (who has been waterboarded, was the Master Instructor at SERE) saying it absolutely torture, in fact the same type of torture John McCain went through in Hanoi.
Now who would you believe? The politician who 'doesn't think it causes pain' or the ex-SERE instructor who has been waterboarded and has watreboarded hundreds of people?
I like this quote as well:
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Originally Posted by SWJ
It has been reported that both the Army and Navy SERE school’s interrogation manuals were used to form the interrogation techniques used by the US army and the CIA for its terror suspects. What was not mentioned in most articles was that SERE was designed to show how an evil totalitarian, enemy would use torture at the slightest whim. If this is the case, then waterboarding is unquestionably being used as torture technique.
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He has a point.