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Torture - severe physical or mental pain inflicted to coerce behavior

Waterboarding - An act that consists of immobilizing a victim on his or her back with the head inclined downwards, and then pouring water over the face and into the breathing passages. By forced suffocation and inhalation of water, the subject experiences drowning and is caused to believe they are about to die. It can cause extreme pain, dry drowning, damage to lungs, brain damage from oxygen deprivation, other physical injuries including broken bones due to struggling against restraints, lasting psychological damage or, if uninterrupted, death. Adverse physical consequences can start manifesting months after the event; psychological effects can last for years.

We can debate whether or not waterboarding is torture. We can also debate whether or not A = A, or 2 + 3 = 5, or any.

It doesn't matter if person X or anyone else claims that something does or does not meet a definition, if it can be demonstrated that the necessary and sufficient conditions for the definition are met.

Waterboarding is the infliction of pain to extract information.
The necessary and sufficient conditions of "torture" have been met (severe physical or mental pain inflicted to coerce behavior)

Debate over, Logic wins again.

A still equals A.

Glad we can finally put that to rest.