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Perhaps before we go any further you need to define, for yourself as much as anyone, what torture is? Can you call a sword a sword, or is calling it a rubber chicken the only way you can cope?
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Calling a sword a sword is a bit different from calling waterboarding torture.
Most folks, when they think of torture, think of typical stuff - stretching, pulling fingernails, bashing the head into concrete or perhaps a classic knee-capping.
These fit in with the definitions of torture that focus on physical pain.
Waterboarding isn't so much physical pain as much as psychological terror.
This is where the difference arises.
On one side, you have the people who think it isn't torture unless there's blood on the floor.
On the other side, there are the bleeding hearts that believe prison sentences are "cruel and unusual" punishment.
The prospect of prison does inflict terror in the minds of many people, so it could be a form of torture.