Is waterboarding torture?

November 7, 2007 in Political Animals | No comments

Here’s a simple question for the wingnuts out there (Jay Stephenson, Dan Paden, Weasel Zipper, and Justin Higgins come to mind):

Is waterboarding torture?

If your answer is ‘no’, then when did it stop being torture? The US has historically prosecuted waterboarding as a crime. Why would that change? Why would we want it to?