Water Boarding is indeed torture.

I understand why you feel waterboarding is not torture, but understand the deffinition I gave in the previous round for torture fits the resoulution. I will post this deffinition again: Tortrue:anguish of body or mind : agony b: something that causes agony or pain(http://www.merriam-webster.com......) Final Statements: Now What is the point of water boarding? The Sole purpose is to simulate drowning to a person tied and bound to a table. Water is forced into lungs this is not equvilant to a parent spanking a child, this is drowning. I refer back to the incident of Daniel Levin. He wrote that even though he knew those doing it meant him no harm, and he knew they would rescue him at the instant of the slightest distress, and he knew he would not die — still, with all that reassurance, he could not stop the terror screaming from inside of him, could not quell the horror, could not convince that which is at the core of each of us, the entity who exists behind all the embellishments we strap to ourselves, like purpose and name and family and love, he could not convince his being that he wasn't drowning. This is not only physical but this is clearly a mental torture. The reason why waterboarding is not used anymore as a torture meathod in the U.S. is because the Congress of the United States felt that it was torture. It was outlawed, not because it was "usless", but rather it was determined to be torture. I will answer my opponets questions: 1.Is there ANY evidence at all (you've provided none) that Waterboarding leaves a permanant, harmful, crippling impression on the people it is done to? But whether it's termed torture or an enhanced interrogation technique, as it is sometimes referred to by the CIA, the mechanics of waterboarding cause severe physical stress on the body and deep psychological wounds that can last a lifetime, according to healthcare experts interviewed by Nursing Spectrum and NurseWeek. "That goes without saying," says Michael Grodin, MD, codirector of the Boston Center for Refugee Health and Human Rights in Boston. Grodin has treated Iraqi and Kurdish citizens who were subjected to waterboarding in the Middle East. The practice is an "enormously traumatic experience," he says. "Everyone who knows anything about medicine would agree." (http://include.nurse.com...) According to the recently published book Torture and Democracy, by Darius Rejali, an expert on modern torture and a professor of political science at Reed College in Oregon, "Even a small amount of water in the glottis causes violent coughing, initiating a fight-or-flight response, raising the heart rate and respiratory rate, and triggering desperate efforts to break free. The supply of oxygen available for basic metabolic functions is exhausted within seconds." Does this answer your first question? 2.If Waterboarding was really a terrible torture that left long lasting permannt impressions on the victim, then why do we do it to our own soldiers? Because the U.S. Military does not use this torture meathod anymore, it doesn't have to be used on them anymore either. It's not part of the training. If cops stopped using pepper spray than they wouldn't have to use it on themselves in training. In Conclusion the international community calls waterboarding torture. Recently Congress deemed this torture. The persons who have had it done to themselves whther it be reporters or government employees, they have called this torture too. By voting Pro, you are not voting for left_wing_momrmon, you are voting in agreement that the use of waterboarding, a technique used to simulate drowning, is a form of torture. I strongly suggest you read the article I presented earlier where experts dicuss this isuue before making your vote: http://include.nurse.com... Thank you.