Yes, Virginia, Waterboarding is Torture

One of the big "news" items from the Eric Holder confirmation hearing is that he agrees that waterboarding is torture. Of course it is torture to almost kill someone by drowning and then bring them back from the point of death to do it over again. What is crazy about how things have been run for the past 7 years is that there were people who tried to pretend it wasn't torture.

Interesting historical notes: not only did the US prosecute Japanese soldiers for waterboarding after WWII, we also prosecuted our own soldiers for doing the same thing during Vietnam.