The Experience of Waterboarding

[ruinsofkunark]

@dumbsong You are an idiot. We do it to our own soldiers BECAUSE it is torture so that they are prepared should they be subjected to the "brief discomfort" (as you put it) in the field. Waterboarding is absolutely torture.

[vivascargill]

this is part of a slightly longer interview he did with Amy Goodman

[vivascargill]

henri alleg is a hero!

[dal4018]

@vivascargill I now know where Uncle Sam learned this from thanks FROG PPL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[vivascargill]

never forget Djamila Boupacha!

[dumbsong]

0:41. Than thats not torture the deffinition of torture is unbareable pain yet waterboarding is a brief discomfort that we do to our own soldiers

[rumpraisin]

If you've read any accounts of those who've been tortured, then you'll find it usually starts off with 'brief discomfort' (as you describe it)such as waterboarding. But then if the torturers can't get the information they want using this technique, they usually resort to more painful stuff. If you read this man's story,you'll find out that the soldiers who tortured him ended up burning his nipples off with a blow torch.

[TheUTubeRebel]

@dumbsong

Get waterboarded yourself and then tell me it's "brief discomfort".

[482c]

everyone should read his book "The Question"

[wfelizali]

How can Judge Mukasey be mistaken that Waterbaording is indeed torture?

[Hervorragend604]

Maybe he just hasn't been tortured himself. It's always easy to ignore or downplay personal experiences until you yourself are the person going through those experiences.

[MortenEvans]

true

[Hervorragend604]

Thanks. Although I must say that I'm not advocating that the judge necessarily *should* be waterboarded; I'm just saying that if he was, his attitudes toward that form of torture would be completely and irrevocably changed. And, chances are, he wouldn't be so indifferent about it. Of course, with some things, like torture, most people don't have to endure it to know if it's a good or bad thing. Apparently Mukasey isn't like most people.