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To torture, or not to torture, that is the question....

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Question 1:

March 10, 2008, President George Bush vetoed the annual intelligence authorization bill, which would have stopped use of 'enhanced interrogation' techniques such as waterboarding. It it ok to waterboard prisoners in U.S. control?

	Depends			No

	Yes

Question 2:

What is the generally accepted legal definition of torture, as determined by the United Nations, and followed as international human rights law?

Any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information

Whatever we say it is

Question 3:

Enhanced interrogation techniques, especially waterboarding are seen as effective ways to get information from reluctant detainees. Waterboarding is popular for the speed in which it works, and?

	It's highly accurate in providing information			Water is cheap

	It leaves no physical trace of the technique

Question 4:

Waterboarding is getting all of the attention lately, but which of the following is not part of the U.S. government's 'enhanced interrogation techniques'?

	The Cold Cell			Watching Primetime reality shows

	The Attention Grab			Long Time Standing

Question 5:

As a technique, how long has waterboarding been in use?

	Since the 1960's			Since World War I

	Since the Spanish Inquisition