Just posted at Digg based on this waterboarding article.

I’m sure most of you have seen the fox news reporter getting water boarded. His conclusion was that it was bad but that he had no lasting harm — so how bad is it really.

He failed to point out that (1) he got to choose when it stopped (2) he knew they would stop when he asked (3) he knew they would not kill him. I can only imagine what his reaction would have been if he had thought they were willing to kill him. Would he have flashbacks from that trauma for the rest of his life? What kind of hatred would he have for those people and everything they stand for?

When US agencies torture, they are doing it in the name of America. And the vast majority of Americans have made it clear that we think it is wrong.