First, waterboarding is NOT torture, because it does not cause intense pain:
Torture----------:
Pronunciation: - \ to r-ch r\
Function - noun
DEFINITION: The infliction of intense pain (as from burning, crushing, or wounding) to punish, coerce, or afford sadistic pleasure.
Source: Merriam Webster Online Dictionary
It also will or will not determine how or soldiers are treated when captured.
In every war in which we have participated since the signing of the Geneva Accords the enemy has tortured our captured soldiers, even when the enemy was a signatory to the Accords.
Sadly, the lesson of history is that how we treat captured enemy combatants bears no relationship to how the enemy treats ours.
2007-12-14
04:24:06
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