Green Beret is waterboarded to defend CIA nominee Gina Haspel

[RadioGod]

We didn't do that, troll.

Sorry my humor didn't go over with you. So I will be real. This guy was a Green Beret. He is trained to handle different kinds of torture. If he was placed in Gitmo or some other secret CIA interrogation camp and subjected to sleep deprivation, extreme air conditioning, ear-rattling music and sounds, stripped naked and having your dignity violated, and a constant barrage of waterboarding, he wouldn't be so relaxed about this.
Most people go crazy just being locked in a room alone for a few days. With the above-mentioned "enhancements", the process towards breaking someone down is sped up considerably.

[Grokmaster]

He should have pulled his own fingernails out too

That would be ACTUAL TORTURE, as opposed to waterboarding....

[Grokmaster]

Sorry my humor didn't go over with you. So I will be real. This guy was a Green Beret. He is trained to handle different kinds of torture. If he was placed in Gitmo or some other secret CIA interrogation camp and subjected to sleep deprivation, extreme air conditioning, ear-rattling music and sounds, stripped naked and having your dignity violated, and a constant barrage of waterboarding, he wouldn't be so relaxed about this.
Most people go crazy just being locked in a room alone for a few days. With the above-mentioned "enhancements", the process towards breaking someone down is sped up considerably.

If it gets us information that saves ONE AMERICAN LIFE...hand me the pliers and blowtorch, please.....

[Crepitus]

Really you despise me? From an on line forum? Are you that sensitive? Is that really a personal threat towards me? Or a tongue in cheek kinda thing? If the former, be careful what you ask for..............

Have you completed the Air Force Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape (SERE) Training? I have, so trust me "son" I am not worried.
In case you do not know, the The training’s earliest origins were forged to combat Chinese interrogation tactics on US soldiers captured in the Korean War. Further developments were made as cooperative research and training methods were conducted between the military and the CIA, the teaching ethos is not how to torture but how to resist it.

My point is not my personal feeling for you, which are pretty much non-existent, but that it's different when done for real rather than in training.

[Grokmaster]

To me the COMFORT of a TERRORIST IS MEANINGLESS, vs the LIFE OF ONE AMERICAN. PERIOD.

[Agent Zero]

Right after you are.

I'm not the one who offered to for charity.

[Common Sense]

Being water boarded by your buddies is far different than if it was done by strangers while you are a prisoner.

[Abby08]

Being water boarded by your buddies is far different than if it was done by strangers while you are a prisoner.

That is true, you can tell your friends to stop and, they will. Not so with people who'd rather see you dead.

[Grokmaster]

Being water boarded by your buddies is far different than if it was done by strangers while you are a prisoner.

Neither causes physical damage....

[Cletus]

Being water boarded by your buddies is far different than if it was done by strangers while you are a prisoner.

No, it really isn't.