On 2010-02-22 16:59:33 -0500, rw said:

After WWII the US convicted Japanese soldiers of war crimes and
sentenced them to very harsh penalties for waterboarding. It's torture.

Perhaps. But would YOU use it if someone kidnapped your child and
wouldn't tell you where she was? Would you use it to save one of
yours? There's no pain. No lasting physical impairment. No blood.
Our own soldiers experienced it to help them survive interregation.
Would you beat, hit, bite the man that knew where your child was being
kept? Simple question, Steve. Would you sacrifice your child or would
you waterboard the perp? Remember -- no pain, no blood, no loss of
limbs, teeth, ears, or eyes. Just a simple procedure that lasts less
that 15 seconds. Would you?

I sure as hell would. I'd use it to save YOU, never mind my own
children or loved ones. Hell, I'd use it to save any human being, and
Wolfgang.

Dave