We do torture. The whole world knows it, and even in the land of the brave and the free and the righteous none of us needed to wait for the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights or anyone anyone else to tell us what we all know already.

Waterboarding should be prosecuted as torture: U.N.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The controversial interrogation technique known as waterboarding and used by the United States qualifies as torture, the U.N. human rights chief said on Friday.

Why do we do torture? Because we want to, and because we can. And by the way, ordinary Americans have repeatedly shown they're okay with it, or it wouldn't continue today.

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