Quote Originally Posted by Don Corleone View Post
Not speaking to the ethical/political discussion intended for this thread, but the actual mechanics of it...

I've accidentally backed myself into experimentation with water-boarding (on myself). To make a long story short, I was drinking water in bed, with a much lower pillow than I had used before.

Interesting... no matter how much I tried to go slow and prepare myself, despite the fact that I myself was administering the water to myself.... Could not suppress the reflexive terror of the instinctive feel of drowning.

Honestly, this changed my whole view on water-boarding. Prior to this, I always suspected that the detainees and others subjected to it were making mountains out of molehills. I stand thoroughly corrected, it does indeed incite tremendous, possibly unbearable psychological pressure.
Yeah, people judging it as anything less than torture must watch Fox News several hours a day...