What can one say to this? I really have no words to describe the sick feeling I have over stuff like this.
And by the way- when a government "debates" things like waterboarding in the open- you can rest assured that they are doing far worse in practice already. You cannot "regulate" torture. What? You are going to appeal to the torturer's sense of right and wrong in the methods he uses? You are going to trust the word of someone who is capable of such things? A person who tortures other people for a living and the people who surround and aid him in his work are going to be restricted by some "law" or torturer's manual? LOL.
What can be said here? Our government is evil and large swaths of our population that even think torture is a subject for debate are evil as well. That simple.