I think I don't object to torture - not the kind everyone has their panties in a bunch about lately. If the torture they have been talking about was cutting fingers off torture, or pulling teeth out torture, I would be against it. But this doesn't really bother me so much.
Now, I do think waterboarding anyone 150+ times is probably a little pointless. But if doing that a few times helps, I'm not sure it's worthy of a big kerfuffle.
I also think it is a shortcoming in the english language that the same word (torture) can be defined by both waterboarding, and slowly pulling somebody apart by the limbs (which is what I usually envision when I hear the word). Seems like we could use some gradation here.
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