One man's torture is another man's fraternity prank

What we're hearing from the right is this...waterboarding is not torture. Waterboarding is intensive interrogation. Ann Coulter even likened it to a "fraternity prank."

So, that means that if waterboarding is not torture then American citizens who are in the custody of other countries can now feel free to waterboard their detainee's, because according to Bush holdovers this is not torture.

How very interesting.

HowStuffWorks has a really great video and some really cool links describing, "What is waterboarding." The video shows what would be considered "minimal" waterboarding. It is the dripping of water on the forhead or the streaming water on the forehead both with restraints and without. This is not even the most extreme version where a bag is put over the detainee's head and water is poured directly through the bag until the individual's psychological and physical reaction to the belief that they are being drowned kicks in.

Call me crazy. Call me a crazy liberal. But...even the most mild forms of waterboarding seem like a psychological mind fuck and therefore seem like torture.

I think its interesting that pundits like to talk about individuals that torture as terrorists, animals, evil etc. But if we are using the same techniques then aren't we evil, terrorist animals too?

Just a thought.