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Originally Posted by Kishar
that is not torture. waterboarding is an "Enhanced Interrogation Technique." 
but having a 3/8 drill bit ran through your kneecap is torture or being electricuted or having a lit cigarette jammed into eyesocket or having your fingers cut off is torture. |
Vietnam War
Waterboarding was designated as illegal by U.S. generals in the Vietnam War.[77] On January 21, 1968, The Washington Post published a controversial front-page photograph of two U.S soldiers and one South Vietnamese soldier participating in the waterboarding of a North Vietnamese POW near Da Nang.[78] The article described the practice as "fairly common".[78] The photograph led to the soldier being court-martialled by a U.S. military court within one month of its publication, and he was discharged from the army.[77][79] Another waterboarding photograph of the same scene, referred to as "water torture" in the caption, is also exhibited in the War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City.[80]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterboarding#Vietnam_War