US President,George Bush has claimed that the US dosent use torture tactics,in its war on terror,he says ''This country does not use torture,we're not going to torture''.
The facts seem to be slightly different.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6093298.stm

I myself have experienced this practise,it gives a sense of drowning,very nasty,very effective..

I myself have experienced this practise,it gives a sense of drowning,very nasty,very effective..

Two questions:

1. Did you give up whatever information was being sought?

2. How in the hell did you get yourself into that predicament?

I think we already covered this one in a different thread

Think I missed that - got a link? Or perhaps Paul wouldn't mind sharing the story again?

Two questions:

1. Did you give up whatever information was being sought?

2. How in the hell did you get yourself into that predicament?
1. I was lucky in a sense,as I was being asked questions about things I genuinely had very little information about,so I was of little help.

2.Ive always been opposed to the British Occupation of Ireland in one form or other.

Perhaps the more pertinent discussion would be what truly constitutes torture? Obviously, it was a much simpler question a century ago.

Perhaps the more pertinent discussion would be what truly constitutes torture? Obviously, it was a much simpler question a century ago.

Very true. But, would such a discussion serve the purpose of belittling the US President?
Sometime ago I raised the question of what the US Constitution meant by "cruel and unusual punishment". Obviously the framers of the constitution would have understood it to mean something quite different than it means today.

If the framer of the discussion is intelligent, then it should compliment their intended purpose, indifferent to its final conclusion. Yet, indifferent to political affiliation, this is where the bulk of the conversation should reside. However, I think it would be generally agreed upon that the nature of the discussion, has drastically changed from the physical to the mental, at least in aspect to the western world.

So.
Define torture.