Hmmm...then for those who do not support the mild form of CIA waterboarding, I guess drone attacks, bombing cities with civillian populations, engaging in close combat in urban terrain, with civillians present and staging raids where the target (bin laden) is actually killed are also forbidden by your code of ethics and morality? So to would be giving the police firearms, and probably mace as well since chemical warfare was used in world war 1 and we wouldn't want to be seen using chemical weapons, of any kind, on civillians whose only crime is resisting arrest or protesting their government. I guess it would be a nicer world if the tactics you believe in were the only ones we used.
Bill, lets find a CIA op to waterboard you. You can then be an expert and let us know first hand how effective and harmless it was.
Torture of prisioners is not the same as warfare, which " drone attacks, bombing cities with civillian populations, engaging in close combat in urban terrain, with civillians present and staging raids where the target (bin laden) is actually killed" are.
However, blind targeting of civilian populations IS illegal and violation of treaty.
A can of mace is about as close to chemical warfare as a fart. There is a vast difference between a personal can and what Saddam used on the Kurds.
Again, all of these have nothing, nada, zippo, ziltch, not a bob damned thing, to do with torture as you very well know.