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Originally Posted by Tread
Waterboarding is international described as torture.
The US has prosecuted water torture as war crime many times in history, what should Waterboarding exclude from this?
In the case Hamdan v. Rumsfeld (2006), the Supreme Court of the United States decides that prisoners of terror can?t be treated as Unlawful Combatant.
So they fall under the Laws of War or Public International Law, and forbid torture.
It is not right to punish someone who infracted the law (terrorism) with lawless methods. That is an antinomy itself.
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Simulating drowing is not torture; actually carrying through with trying to drown a person would be.
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Originally Posted by Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Main Entry: 1tor?ture
Pronunciation: \ˈtȯr-chər\
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle French, from Old French, from Late Latin tortura, from Latin tortus, past participle of torquēre to twist; probably akin to Old High German drāhsil turner, Greek atraktos spindle
Date: 1540
1 a : anguish of body or mind : agony b : something that causes agony or pain
2 : the infliction of intense pain (as from burning, crushing, or wounding) to punish, coerce, or afford sadistic pleasure
3 : distortion or overrefinement of a meaning or an argument : straining
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This is how the "noble Arabs" operate:
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive...2torture1.html
Comparing waterboarding to what they do is like comparing a pea shooter to a 155mm howitzer. Is this method uncomfortable? Yes. Does
simulated drowning physically or mentally debilitate someone compared to beatings or other barbaristic actions? No.
I think people fail to recognize that the people who get waterboarded are not your average, run-of-the-mill citizen who has been mistakenly detained. They are die-hard fanatics who would kill innocent people in a heartbeat and with a smile on their face.
When you have commandos abduct you in the middle of the night, chances are high that you did something to deserve it.