Turns out it is torture

MANIFESTO

DarLucky pointed this story out to me over the weekend.

WLS radio host Erich "Mancow" Muller decided to subject himself to the controversial practice of waterboarding live on his show [on Friday].

Mancow decided to tackle the divisive issue head on—actually it was head down, while restrained and reclining ...

Witnesses said Muller thrashed on the table, and even instantly threw the toy cow he was holding as his emergency tool to signify when he wanted the experiment to stop. He only lasted 6 or 7 seconds.

"It is way worse than I thought it would be, and that's no joke," Mancow said, likening it to a time when he nearly drowned as a child. "It is such an odd feeling to have water poured down your nose with your head back ... It was instantaneous ... and I don't want to say this: absolutely torture."

Meanwhile,

The backlash against President Obama's extraordinary proposal for indefinite "preventive detention"—already widespread in the immediate aftermath of his speech—continues to grow. On Friday, Sen. Russ Feingold sent a letter to Obama which, while praising some aspects of his speech, vowed to hold hearings on his detention proposal, and in the letter, Feingold rather emphatically highlighted the radical and dangerous aspects of Obama's approach.

It's too typical for the America First crowd (like the super patriot Deadeye "I had better things to do" Dick) to downplay the horrid aspects of waterboarding, but even such a stalwart supporter as Mancow has to admit to its diabolical characteristics.