Why waterboarding is tortureThe US reservations to the United Nations Convention Against Torture define torture as "any act by which severe pain or suffering, physical or mental, is inflicted on a person for the purpose of obtaining information from a person." Waterboarding fits this definition very well. In the article “How to Do It” waterboarding is described as filling the upper respiratory system with water which causes both physical and mental pain. This causes the tortured person to feel like they are drowning without actually dying from drowning. For the person experiencing it, it might even be worse because the article states that “his sufferings must be that of a drowning man, but cannot drown,” so it will never end. So, even if the person is not in real physical danger, the panic caused by this method of interrogation causes both physical suffering and great mental suffering. In the definition of torture it says that it is torture whether it causes physical or mental suffering, and water boarding does both! The Fourth Geneva Convention states that...