Torture or Not?
Nov 16th, 2007 by James Hofsiss in Air Force
Who thinks “waterboarding” isn’t torture? Show of hands, people. Now, are you freaking nuts?
As it has been explained by experts (i.e., those who’ve experienced it) it is basically drowning. Now, I’m not a great swimmer. In fact I’m a pretty poor swimmer, and there’ve been times, especially when I was younger, that I found myself in over my head. Literally. I can remember the sheer terror of those moments. The fear. The panic. The frantic, desperate struggle to get my heard back to the air. Now if someone forced that kind of experience on me, I’d sure call it torture.
Second, those who’ve experienced this, even in a “safe”‘ training environment have declared that they would have done or said anything to make it stop. Anything. That makes any information gained from such tactics dubious at best. Given all the above why is there any debate on this subject?
Yeah, I’d say it sounds pretty scary.
Hey, you’re blogging again!!
Glad you were able to keep up with my “move.” Hope you’re doing well …
I totally agree simulated drowning must be torture and waterboarding is exactly that, so I read.
I never dreamed our country did such things and I wonder, have we always been this apathetic about our means of getting information???
Happy to learn you are out there. Good post.
Betty G
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Thanks,
Betty G