Torture is defined as:
the act of inflicting excruciating pain, as punishment or revenge, as a means of getting a confession or information, or for sheer cruelty.
Below is a video that shows what the Liberals/Progressives in America have been whining about for the past couple of years. It is a demonstration of waterboarding, as used by American military interrogators. This is what Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the CIA lied to her about. This procedure has only been used against 3 Islamic Jihadists.
The Left calls this torture. But no-one, not even in the State-run media, has ever demonstrated this for the American public. There’s a reason for that. By calling this torture, and not demonstrating it, the Left is using a form of psychological manipulation. When we cannot see a thing that someone uses a fearful word to describe, our minds fill the gaps in information with terrible images. The best antidote is the truth. That is what we endeavor to bring you here. Show this to everyone you know, especially those who say waterboarding is torture but have never seen it.
This was originally posted on the Weekly Standard:
Playboy journalist Mike Guy got himself waterboarded last month but I missed the video — probably because it doesn’t confirm everything the left already knew to be true and thus has very little news value. On the assumption that many other folks didn’t get the chance to see this, watch the video below. Guy takes it like a man, which isn’t to say that he lasts longer than five seconds — after all, the technique is designed to be extremely unpleasant. But the U.S. military trainer who applies the techniques makes clear that he doesn’t believe it to be torture, and Guy himself isn’t exactly convinced after having suffered through it. He seems to have gotten a buzz off of it. One wonders: if water-boarding really is torture, why are so many folks willing to give it a try? You don’t see people lining up to have their fingernails pulled off.
The definition of torture seems to be missing something. I show definition in the Oxford Dictionary of the English language to be:
torture
• noun 1 the infliction of severe pain as a punishment or a forcible means of persuasion. 2 great suffering or anxiety.
• verb subject to torture.
— DERIVATIVES torturer noun.
— ORIGIN Latin tortura ‘twisting, torment’, from torquere ‘to twist’.
SO WHO ARE YOU TRYING TO KID? obviously water boarding qualifies as torture. AS USUAL YOU ARE ALL LIARS
How about a substantial argument, instead of “my dictionary says it is!” Apparently you missed the link to the definition.
But wait I am not done here is the rest of the dictionary definition you used and conveniently removed what did not suit you:
tor•ture
Pronunciation: (tôr’chur), [key]
—n., v., -tured, -tur•ing.
—n.
1. the act of inflicting excruciating pain, as punishment or revenge, as a means of getting a confession or information, or for sheer cruelty.
2. a method of inflicting such pain.
3. Often, tortures. the pain or suffering caused or undergone.
4. extreme anguish of body or mind; agony.
5. a cause of severe pain or anguish.
—v.t.
1. to subject to torture.
2. to afflict with severe pain of body or mind: My back is torturing me.
3. to force or extort by torture: We’ll torture the truth from his lips!
4. to twist, force, or bring into some unnatural position or form: trees tortured by storms.
5. to distort or pervert (language, meaning, etc.).
LIAR LIAR LIAR LIAR LIAR LIAR LIAR
Yeah, I left out all those secondary definitions, right after I conveniently included a link to the definition.
Go troll elsewhere.
Someone challenging your assertions is considered a troll on this blog?
Nice.
I saw no anguish, no agony, no excruciating pain, no cruelty. I’m gonna have to go with the author on this one, and wait for a more cogent expression than “liar, liar, liar” (ad nauseum). I heard that one in grade school. Nor, jasonthe, would I consider this, “someone challenging your assertions.” Even if he’d included “pants on fire,” which would have been a bit more complete.
Ron and I had a fun conversation via twitter, wherein he used the standard leftist tactics of name-calling, evasion, misdirection, slander and ridicule.
But he gave me some great fodder for another post…
Keep watching.
Torture: beheading, as in what Muslim Extremists have been known to do to American citizens and service personal at will.
Torture: Flying planes into buildings containing thousands of innocent citizens for no legtimate reason. Leaving many wounded to endure long periods of recooperation and leaving families of thousands of victims to cope with the reality.
Torture: Randomly bombing and killing innocent children throughout the world, leaving many more thousands wounded and in need of long periods of recooperation, many hundreds loosing limbs or sight. Many more families forced to endure life without loved ones.
Get a clue! Why do I not hear you bemoaning that?
This is the most ignorant blog post I’ve seen in a long time, and I’ve followed Utah blogs for years. You ought to check before relying on The Weekly Standard for factual information.
Please read Malcolm Nance’s excellent explanation: Waterboarding is Torture… Period.
Well, rmwarnick, I might counter by saying that your comment is probably the most ignorant comment I have ever had on this entire blog since its inception in 2004. But, I won’t.
Instead, I will simply point out that the video exhibited both here and on the Weekly Standard was produced by Playboy. I shouldn’t have to point out such obvious details, but since you apparently haven’t watched the video I’m left with little choice.
I’m sure Malcolm Nance has a different opinion of whether waterboarding is torture, but I don’t see any compelling reason to accept his opinion over that of anyone else. His explanation is probably not any better than what is given in the video above.
How many civilians have now volunteered to be waterboarded? I know of three right now. There are certainly others. By contrast, how many people have volunteered to have their fingernails pulled out, or their teeth drilled, or their genitals wired to a car battery, or hot knives run under their flesh, or any one of a hundred other methods of real torture? None, so far, and I wouldn’t wait around for anyone to show up.
‘nough said.
I suggest you read Malcolm Nance’s article. You literally could not find anyone who knows more about waterboarding. It’s torture (going back to the Spanish Inquisition), it’s illegal, it’s condemned all over the world. Oh, and by the way, torture does not produce useful intelligence. It was used by the Bush administration to coerce false confessions.
I know this post is specifically about waterboarding, but let’s not forget the many other forms of torture employed by the CIA and the U.S. military in recent years. Glenn Greenwald reminds us that many detainees were tortured to death.