You said there are no lasting effects and yet according to testimony those it was inflicted on have said rain gave them panic attacks for YEARS. You really ought to try to at least have some dim idea what you are talking about.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterboarding

They do it in Iraq and afganistan everyday!!
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Yeah that is what makes them uncivilized. What is your point that we need to join the evil doers club?

One thing I don’t get, why do you Libs start name calling when this don’t go you way- it makes you Unintelligent.
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Think what you want. It would take a lobotomy for me to get anywhere near as stupid as you. You may not be bright enough to notice but the facts show this argument IS going my way. That feeling on your back is me mopping the floor with you. Repeating your original assertion adds no force to it. Only braindead rightwingers think if they repeat something often enough it magically becomes true.

My GOD you are stupid. Do you just stop reading once you get what you want that is the BEGGINING OF IT. It goes on from there. Learn to READ for goodness sake

In the end, I will be right

PLease tell me Kevin you arent dumb enough to think that just because the GC defines who is a prisoner of war that means that we can at random pick up ANYONE we want who ISNT wearing a uniform and on the basis of an accusation alone do anything we want to them. That would just be sad

They do it in Iraq and afganistan everyday!!

One thing I don’t get, why do you Libs start name calling when this don’t go you way- it makes you Unintelligent.

Torture, according to the United Nations Convention Against Torture, is:
“ any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental

Give it up. That was from a report to congress about the CAT I cut and pasted the definition from the first page right after the table of contents right where it says DEFINITION OF TORTURE. If that isnt good enough for you I couldnt care less it will be good enough for anyone RATIONAL

I thought I didn’t know what I was talking about!!!!!!
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You thought right. You DONT know what you are talking about as I have shown. You MAY not be bright enough to understand the basic concepts here but what is CERTAIN is that you dont know what you are talking about

First of all when did we even ACCUSE these people being held of being terrorists much less PROVE that criminal act in a court of law? Thats right we didnt you are just CALLING them terrorists to justify whatever you want to do with them. So at BEST you mean terrorist SUSPECTS but even THAT isnt true. Maher Arar was NEVER accused of terrroism and HE was tortured for ten months. You keep putting up who are POWS as if THAT were the ONLY class of protected persons. As I cited above IT IS NOT. I guess you think if you keep repeating your baseless assertion it will magically become true but it doesnt work that way. YOU calling them terrorists does NOT change the rule of law to mean we can now torture them.

punishing him for an act he or a thirdperson has committed or is suspected of having committed,

First of all are you REALLY going to try to claim no mental of physical suffering is involved in waterboarding? Second DID you say the same thing because I missed THIS part

has committed or is suspected of having committed, or intimidating orcoercing him or a third person,

I HAVE read them and that is just ONE protected class. The above makes the point QUITE CLEARLY. It also says NO ONE is beyond the law. It is YOU that needs to read them completely instead of just citing ONE part.

I thought I didn’t know what I was talking about!!!!!!

Terrorist don’t do any of the following, therefore they are not covered under the GC- period!!!!!

The Japanese were prosecuted because they wore a Uniform, and fought for a specific country

Terrorist don’t play by those rules
below is from the GC

2. Members of other militias and members of other volunteer corps, including those of organized resistance movements, belonging to a Party to the conflict and operating in or outside their own territory, even if this territory is occupied, provided that such militias or volunteer corps, including such organized resistance movements, fulfil the following conditions:

(a) That of being commanded by a person responsible for his subordinates;

3. Members of regular armed forces who profess allegiance to a government or an authority not recognized by the Detaining Power.

any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental,

I think I typed the same thing!!!!!!

Have you ever read them completely, because you fail to mention about not wearing a uniform, if they do not wear a uniform or fight for a flay and fight against us they are not “civilian”

any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, isintentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or athird person information or a confession, punishing him for an act he or a thirdperson has committed or is suspected of having committed, or intimidating orcoercing him or a third person, or for any reason based on discrimination of anykind, when such pain or suffering is inflicted by or at the instigation of or withthe consent or acquiescence of a public official or other person acting in anofficial capacity. It does not include pain or suffering arisingonlyfrom, inherentin or incidental to lawful sanctions.Importantly, this definition specifies that both physical and mental suffering can constitute torture,

http://209.85.173.132/search?q=cache:uxWYpTwtp3AJ:digital.library.unt.edu/govdocs/crs/permalink/meta-crs-8463:1+Un+Convention+against+torture+statute&cd=4&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

So again do you EVER know what you are talking about?