are you on the medical marihuana ???
Considering that I served 20 years in the US Military, yeah.......I think I'm qualified to figure out what is and isn't torture.
How much did you serve? Have you been waterboarded? If so, did it feel like torture?
And........FWIW..........yes, for SF types, they DO go through waterboarding training, but that is because they deploy to countries that don't recognize the Geneva Conventions, and they need to be prepared mentally if something goes wrong and they're captured in those nations, as they WILL use that technique.
But seeing as torture is defined as something that has long lasting physical and or psychological affects....how can you say waterboarding is torture if we do it to our SF's?
I mean.....do they string up our SF's to electircal chords and shock them to a point just before being lethal to prepare them just in case they are captured?
They don't get waterboarded every day for a month straight. It's usually (from what I've heard from friends who were SF), a one time deal so that they are aware of what it is like.
No, they don't do it repeatedly to them.
However, waterboarding someone 4 times/day for 35 days straight would leave some kind of mental effects.