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Originally Posted by TheAngryPostman

There is now way to simulate death; you either are or you aren't. Simulating drowning is not the same as dying.

I said dieing not death, the last feeling before death.

Originally Posted by TheAngryPostman

Reread the definition of torture again; specifically the second line in the definition.

Reread the definitions of torture again; specifically the first line of the definitions. It is not a figurative meaning.
If there is more than 1 definition they are all valid.

Originally Posted by TheAngryPostman

The US doesn't allow torture. But there is nothing about uncomfortable interrogation techniques. Waterboarding does not leave any lasting physical or mental damage to a subject like Chinese Water Torture or beatings do.

This you call uncomfortable interrogation without leaving any lasting physical or mental damage?:

Originally Posted by Allen S. Keller, M.D. Associate Professor of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine

Water-boarding

Water-boarding or mock drowning, where a prisoner is bound to an inclined board and water is poured over their face, inducing a terrifying fear of drowning clearly can result in immediate and long-term health consequences. As the prisoner gags and chokes, the terror of imminent death is pervasive, with all of the physiologic and psychological responses expected, including an intense stress response, manifested by tachycardia, rapid heart beat and gasping for breath. There is a real risk of death from actually drowning or suffering a heart attack or damage to the lungs from inhalation of water. Long term effects include panic attacks, depression and PTSD. I remind you of the patient I described earlier who would panic and gasp for breath whenever it rained even years after his abuse.

Full Link: http://intelligence.senate.gov/07092...ler.pdf#page=6

Originally Posted by TheAngryPostman

The people who work alongside known terrorist organizations are guilty by association. The people who are waterboarded are usually found planting IED's and EFP's along a roadside and will most likely have had interaction with a high value target.

What is if they work for unknown terrorist organizations?
And who makes the conviction and decides who is in witch degree guilty?
Punishment without proper conviction is highly susceptible for abusiveness.