Id rather be Waterboarded!

"you volunteered didnt you?"
"yeah, but"
"were PAYING you arent we?"
"well yeah"
ZZAPP!
"you can keep the five bucks!"
"I WILL!"

You are right, that is most likely not the mechanic to cause the gag reflex. I suffer from exercise-induced athsma and that is what it feels like to me if have cold water flowing over or near my face. The air just rushes out of my lungs. I was projecting to waterboarding. In my case it is because of cold air going past my nasal passages while my lungs have warmer air. My lungs constrict like an athsma attack, but it goes away as soon as I have a short bit of time away from the cold or I get cold air into my lungs. I do not inflame like an athsma attack, yet am prevented from collecting oxygen.

I think the inclination of the head is to prevent water inhalation, as you do, but it might also be a similar crossed mechanic in which if you have water in your nasal passages, your body thinks you are drowning and wants to force the water out without knowing if it has water or air in the lungs. I guess someone could dip their head upside down into a tub as an experiment if they wanted to check.

But a cloth with water on it would evaporate the water. All water at all states is always evaporating and solidifying. Except when it evaporates it leaves the source of the heat and dissipates as gas. The source of the heat would be the lungs/body. The cloth would cause an imbalance in pressure. Evaporate rapidly is a gross misstatement. The imbalance in pressure would also most likely be overwritten by the lack of seal with the cloth.

I started at the top and the way I read it, he asked about the legality of voluntary waterboarding, which was the part I was answering. I really made a mistake in not editing the quote (not like my responses don't get too long already). I read the rest as him playing devil's advocate and therefore answering someone else (the first post). He added two additional points that had not been added before.

The rest had only a rhetorical question. Also, I read the last "critical" as thorough, instead of being against, since he was pointing out he was playing devil's advocate. So I saw his skepticism as following from the thoroughness and his last line as unnecessarily apologetic for digression as the one leading to his devil's advocacy (I do the same thing but worse)

On the first run through, I just saw the question, skimmed the devil's advocate portion (it is confusing to have someone support a position they don't believe in), quoted, answered, forgot to move my text, and hit reply.

Small Wars Journal has two very good pages on water boarding. The first is by Malcolm Nance "Waterboarding is Torture... Period" at the bottom of the page is an extensive list of links. The second page from SWJ is a reply to Nance's article Waterboarding: A Tool of Political Gotcha by Bing West.

Yesterday (2008/02/28) Al Jazeera Magazine has a good article by Karen J. Greenberg, the Executive Director of the Center on Law and Security at the NYU School of Law, titled Barbarism Lite: Visiting the Torture Museum

Conclusion: Get it in writing.

Get a written description of what's going to happen. With signatures.

Awww, I always miss the good zots!

God you socialist commie hippy sons of bitches don't fucking quit, the moment you all read SALESMAN it should have been a tip off that we were not dealing with a human being. Wahhh they poured water in his mouth, jesus christ I pour water in my mouth every day it's called being thirsty and taking a drink, the only difference here is that when I do it I don't sue the city of Atlanta for pumping cool refreshing torture into my glass.

I thought Atlanta ran out of water

No, we have plenty, it's just that if they let us have any of it we might "accidently" commit crimes against humanity by offering it to each other.

i dont know how you live with yourself, you coke drinking, waterboarding gun toting FASCICST

I live just fine you coffee drinking, hydrophobic, gun banning lover of the nanny state. Hey here is a thought why don't you sue maxwell house for making waterboarding good to the last drop.

It's just not the same. Nice try, Colinism.

Friends don't let friends drink Maxwell House/Folgers/Starbucks.

Sorry I tried......

I don't blame you. You just don't have that combination of self-righteousness and stupidity. Some people are just born that way.

Hey. I Resemble that!

It's true, you know.

Well yeah. Would I have said it if it wasn't?

He's very abusive and abusive people are able to survive and thrive in sales when they'd be totally fucked in any other setting.