tor·ture noun 1. the act of inflicting excruciating pain, as punishment or revenge, as a means of getting a confession or information, or for sheer cruelty.
What's the point of including the definition of torture if you are to go on to completely ignore it or try to redeifne it to fit your agenda?
Waterboarding and the wall thing do NOT even fall under this definition. These things scare the bad guys not harm them. It does not cause excruciating pain. It is uncomfortable at most.
No. You don't get to make that judgement. You are not the arbiter on what is just uncomfortable and what is excruciating pain. And unless you are willing to undergo each and every one of these inhumane treatments then you do get to make that decsion.
We scare the information out of them because they are cowards and will give it up easily.
One of the "enhanced interrogation techniques" used by the US at GITMO and abroad was a technique that involves shackling the arms to the ceiling or a crossbeam in an outstretched position, at such a height so that the prisoner can barley touch the floor, leaving the prisoner to continually shift their weight so they can stay on their feet, if they do not then the it results in a slow suffacation. This is identical to a torture used by the Roman Empire, It was called crucifixion. So does that mean that your oh-so precious "christ" was little more than a "coward who will give it up easily"?
Torture is not used because it's "uncomfortable", it's used because it's painful and under excruciating pain a person will tell you whatever you want them to. It was used on US POW's in both Korea and Vietnam for the very purpose of eliciting false confessions.