waterboarding IS torture

i know you know it and someone who REALLY knows it says it out loud. you might not care if we waterboard or not. i do. i care because i don't want it done to OUR men and women. i don't want US to be monsters and savages. it's 2008. we are human beings. we should be MORAL human beings who obey LAWS
Why It Was Called 'Water Torture'
By Richard E. Mezo
Last week, much to my dismay, government officials testified before Congress that the United States has used the interrogation technique known as waterboarding and would like to hold out the option of using it in the future. As someone who has experienced waterboarding, albeit in a controlled setting, I know that the act is indeed torture. I was waterboarded during my training to become a Navy flight crew member. As has been noted in The Post and other media outlets, waterboarding is "real drowning that simulates death." It's an experience our country should not subject people to.
In February 1963, I was ordered from the Naval Air Station in Alameda, Calif., to Whidbey Island, Wash., for survival training. Part of the week-long program was a brief incarceration in a simulated prisoner-of-war camp; at that time, the program was modeled on events that had occurred during the Korean War. First we were to be "held" in a mock North Korean camp and later transferred to a Chinese camp. .........