Waterboarding

Is waterboarding torture?

We convicted a Japanese officer to 15 years in prison for doing it.
I can see no way to describe it as anything elsel.

If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck...

I would call it torture.

According to a poll I read on CNN today, 2/3 or Americans believe that waterboarding is torture.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/11/...oll/index.html

Wow, that's even more than gave Bush his "mandate from the people" :rolleyes:

I'd like to know why only 2/3 think it is....What thought process do the other 1/3 use.