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No it's not torture. Liberals are exactly like conservatives, always trying to ram rod their moral belief system down everyone's throats.




Actually, is it torture. The USA has previously classified it as such (especially when it was being used against their citizens), and used that reason to prosecute Japanese who practiced the technique during WW2. Maybe you could fill me on what has changed between then and now with regards to the need for information during times of "war".

From Wikipedia's description of waterboarding :

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It can cause extreme pain, dry drowning, damage to lungs, brain damage from oxygen deprivation, other physical injuries including broken bones due to struggling against restraints, lasting psychological damage or, ultimately, death.



If you're not familiar with what dry drowning entails, click the link above. We could skip the "water" and the "boarding" in the process -- how is depriving prisoners of oxygen for any period of time NOT torture?