Good lord...the whole thing discusses the use of torture and the fact that it is not an effective tool.
And yet the term waterboarding is not found ANYWHERE in the whole article. Again I refer you to what constitutes a fallacy.
So now you want to play a game of semantics.
Well I tell you what. Since congress, the courts, international law, and america is divided on the issue of whether waterboarding is torture I think its really disingenuous to call this semantics.
I have given you my personal experiences
Really? Thus far the only thing you've told me is that you've never had any experience with water boarding. Whether you've actually interrogated anyone is questionable as well. Therefore on the issue at hand, you have as much personal experience as I do.
and backed it up with govt studies and opinions of noted experts
Really? From the second page of your article... "The views expressed in this book are those of the authors and do not reflect the official policy or position of the Department of Defense, the National Foreign Intelligence Community or the U.S. Government".
Furthermore, not a single one of those "noted experts" has worked for the CIA... you know, the folks performing these interrogations.
but you chose to believe what you want to believe despite your lack of personal experience or valid information. Now you are just living in a state of deliberate ignorance and denial in which neither I, nor anyone else, could possibly reach you.
Well, since we've dispensed with the personal experience issue lets move on. What I really curious about is why is it perfectly ok for you to dismiss wholesale the statements of CIA officials and the results obtained from waterboarding terror suspects, but I'm supposed to take as gospel some academic treatise that doesn't talk about waterboarding thats written by people who don't perform these types of interrogations.
I shouldn't have to tell you that what happens in academia does not always carry over to the real world. Alternatively, what works in the real world is not always recieved well by the "experts".
So, once again, irony defined: I'm in "denial" and yet you are telling us that the government has not successfully waterboarded these particular individuals.