More Waterboarding

This is how far we have fallen:

"[W]aterboarding generally involves strapping a prisoner to a board, covering his face or mouth with a cloth, and pouring water over his face to create the sensation of drowning." So, is that torture? The papers often make it seem like it's debatable, but TP recommends an incredibly informative entry in the Small Wars Journal Blog by Malcolm Nance, who has lots of personal experience with the practice and states that "waterboarding is a torture technique. Period." Although all the papers say waterboarding involves "simulated drowning" Nance makes it clear that there's nothing simulated about it since "the lungs are actually filling with water." In short, "waterboarding is slow motion suffocation with enough time to contemplate the inevitability of black out and expiration. … When done right it is controlled death."

Our nominee for Attorney General has trouble answering if this is torture and the American public is (as usual) confused about the issue.

*sigh*