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It's not simulated death, it's a psychological tick that temporarily puts a person trained to resist interrogation off balance. I never thought I was going to die when I was waterboarded.
Right, because you were already educated on it, you already knew the outcome. Simulating drowning is simulating death.
I don't give a damn about torturing terrorists from a morality point of view, here's why I'm against it.
1.) If someone is waterboarding me I'm going to say whatever I have to say to make them stop, truth or lie is inconsequential.
2.) Normalizing people to the idea of waterboarding, making it mainstream, then it later being used against US citizens down the road.
It produces bad intel and that was decided decades ago.
Why did bush bring it back?
To get bad intel he could use for political purposes.
Now these people here are blaming Clinton for Bush accepting a known liars words.
It can (like all interrogation methods) produce inaccurate intel, that's why one specific tactic should never be used exclusively.
So if torture produces bad intel and Curveball provided bad intel but was not tortured should we look into the methods used on him and ban those too?