Michael MuKasey, Bush's candidate to replace Alberto "torture" Gonzales, claims not to know much about waterboarding, only that (in a disingenuous and obscene effort to hide behind a conditional assertion) "if it is a form of torture, then it is unconstitutional." Challenged by Congress to clarify his position on the antecedent, he could only reply, "I'm sorry."
But we all know better, and have for some time. Waterboarding (explicitly endorsed by "just a dunk in the water" Cheney) is obviously torture. It was torture during the Spanish Inquisition. It was torture when the Japanese were convicted of using this technique on American POWs during WWII. Nothing's changed but the face (more familiar now) of the torturers.
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