Why did Conservative radio host Mancow claim that waterboarding isn't torture - until he was waterboarded?

Typical republican hypocritical fanatic.

nicely "Mancow" says that is torture so.... quite? Reeaallly? Yeah that is torture. yet are there no longer diverse ranges of torture?? i think of thats what the argument is quite approximately. Depriving Mancow of chocolate for a week might additionally be torture. As might many things in accordance to a fat talkshow host used to a comphy existence at the back of a mic.

Torture must cause severe physical or psychological damage to be considered torture under the United Nations Convention Against Torture. We water board our own troops, which I would doubt we would do if it caused them severe physical or psychological harm, as that would impair their abilities to be the best soldier they could be.

Realize that there are different ways of waterboarding. Most are considered torture as they force water to enter the lungs or risk drowning the captive, as the Japanese did to U.S. troops in WWII. However, the way the CIA used waterboarding was not seen as falling under severe physical or psychological damage. Rather, it was seen as causing immense discomfort to the individual without actually harming them.

How does any radio host know what is and isn't torture?

Did you know we water board our own troops? It is not torture, it is design to make one feel very uncomfortable without causing long term physical and psychological pain.

Old news by the way.

Why did the congressman from Illinois speak so negatively about the Patriot act and Guantanamo Bay, until he became president? (He has signed their continuance on numerous occasions, just so you know.)

I agree that it is torture, but don't pretend like the ideology you subscribe to isn't just a hypocritical as the one you attack. Because it isn't.

Acting!

The guy lasted all of 6 seconds with someone holding his nose? Totally dishonest.

He was a total pussy about it too, he could only take it for like 1/4 of what people actually being interrogated take it for.

things are different when they aren't theory