But unless it was cruel, he would want nothing to do with it.
Partly because Torquemada, the Grand Inquisitor, used it, waterboarding over the years became unusual, just like other tortures in Spanish Inquisition's bag of tricks, such as the iron maiden. The Grand Inquisitor also thought it very effective in getting witches and heretics to confess to trafficking with the Devil. That should tell us all we need to know about the kind of information one gets by using what Torquemada quite bluntly called torture and the Bush Junta war criminals called "enhanced interrogation techniques."
The only thing waterboarding was good for was getting a torture victim to spill his guts about Saddam's biochemical arsenal that Rummy and the Big Dick wanted to hear about, but only so they could put it in the NIE as part of a ginned up case for war. It's still good for that. For getting any real facts or "actionable intelligence," it's less successful. There was not black magic being practiced and a heretic is merely one who holds unorthodox views, something now recognized as a human right. Oh, yes, young man, Saddam did not possess biochemical weapons.
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