Waterboarding isn't torture. We do waterboarding to our own soldiers in the military.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Torture, including practices like waterboarding, violates the legal and moral standards of all civilized nations.
Our waterboarding program is based on the U.S. military training program... tens of thousands of U.S. servicemen were waterboarded pursuant to this program to prepare them for the possibility of being captured someday so that they would know what it felt like.
If waterboarding's OK, why don't we let our police do it to suspects so we can learn what they know? We only seem to waterboard Muslims... Have we waterboarded anyone else?
America does not torture. We never have, and we never will.
Water-boarding can result in damage to the lungs and the brain, as well as long-term psychological trauma.
We are America; we don't torture. And the moment that is not the case, I want off the train.
Torture produces unreliable evidence and therefore doesn't achieve and protect anybody. Torture corrupts those who are doing the torturing.
I've been water-boarded, and I speak from experience, and it's torture.
I abhor anything that constitutes torture. Water-boarding, it's perfectly clear to me it is torture. I never supported extraordinary rendition to torture, always said that Guantanamo should be closed. There is no clash of ideals and pragmatism there.
Torture is illegal, both in the U.S. and abroad. So - and that is true for the Bush administration and for any other administration.