[quote=felix]Legal opinion given to the Bush Administration indicated that the techniques sanctioned for use by US interrogators were not torture. So, assuming one accepts those opinions, that would render the discussion of treaties moot.[/quote]
The precedent for defining waterboarding as torture was set when we executed Japanese soldiers for using it in WWII.
Are you arguing that waterboarding isn’t torture if we do it — but it is if other people are doing it to us?
