Creature, as stated, I (twice) and others on this forum have actually been waterborded. That real life experience is discounted as it wasn't by an enemy. But what made it very realistic is what Unregestered eluded to. You start to wonder what kind of person would be so quick to do this to thier own.
Truth be told there is alot of sohestrey of the topic here because that is what is REQUIRED to put waterboarding in the torture category. I've summed it up SEVEALR times but all the seemingly infinate ability to play make believe to justify an on it's face reality inluding having it CONTRIDICT training given by those held as experts in iterrogation and intellegence gathering.
Forget using your heads guys, your emotions have ya' seized up. You can't stomach the reality of it so don't pretend to understand the topic so enough dancing around from one example or another of a strained definition of torture, an exploded view of what the scope of the subject is (asphyxiation, for example), or the use of a fascist state scenario to try to keep a hold of the hash interrogation=torture sophistry.
Defining something that leaves you whole, uninjured, and as well 20 minutes after as were before (esentially frightening them into spilling their guts about he details) requires a very strained definition of torture and facing it for threatening ANY nations national security or for killing their innocent civilians for the purpose of causing terror is hardly unreasonable let alone immoral.
Stretch, cloud, muddle, hyperbolize, or fain knoledgablity as much as you like it simple doesn't fit.
Odd don't you think that applying Occums Razor or noting that regaurdless of the above statment having stood for pges without rebuttal, both evidence that without flat out denial of critical thinking and even evidence the waterboarding=torture sophestrey can't remain.
So go on guys. Spin up a new strained definition, misrepresentation of the scope, or facist state scenario. It's hard to face being incorrect but far more damaging to one's self the walk in denial.