[George W. Bush]

They're all people with the same gag reflexes and fear of drowning as everyone else, suicidal or not.

The scenario was that a larger attack was imminent.

If Jihadi Joe knows he only has to hold out for two hours, all he has to do is let you dunk him once, then spew lies to misdirect you and make you stop the waterboarding and then later say he was tortured and deny any knowledge at all of his knowledge of the fourth attack.

Only if Jihadi Joe really wants to spill his guts will this work. It will not work against dedicated jihadis.

[TAdams8591]

My original post #22 was not only regarding imminency, a qualifier you later imposed, but was a general comment about torture and whether or not it is ever morally justifiable.

Intelligence often times, but not always, has a way of deciphering the truth and accuracy of a "confession."

At any rate, with many innocent lives at stake, waterboarding a vicious enemy of the United States, is most certainly justifiable in an effort to save them, or are you going to continue to argue that point?