He seems fine for a man tortured less than a minute ago
And he sounds rather insincere. If what he went through was really as horrible as he insinuated it was, how did he recover so quickly? He sounds more like a man who already made up his mind about how he was going to represent waterboarding and went through the motions. After all, the sergeant said that average was 14 seconds—a man who actually put his reputation on the line that waterboarding isn't torture (I don't know who this man is, but at least that's the impression I got from the video) is going to at least beat the average—unless he's a chicken.
And how did the water get into his nose? Wasn't the sergeant holding his nose as he was pouring water in? So if mouth is the only point of entry, and no one's holding his mouth open (I forget whether it was supposed to be forced open in enhanced interrogations), couldn't this wuss hold his breath for 7 seconds?
And really, my point is that he recovered too quickly. I've dived the wrong way into the pool a few times before and got water forced through my nose—when it's really bad, it takes more than a minute to recover properly—properly enough to talk. Blowing the nose once doesn't quite do it.
Anyways. I don't think I ever denied that waterboarding is a torture—for some definition of torture. But then, there's the waterboarding kind of torture. And there's the pulling out your fingernails one by one kind of torture, or even cutting your finger off one by one, or murdering your family and raping your wife in front of you kind of "torture". The word "torture" covers so wide a range that to call an act torture is to conflate a relatively benign interrogation technique and truly damaging, irreversible acts of sadism.
United States inconveniences a terrorist for 15 seconds in order to save lives. Terrorists cut off fingers of innocents to terrorize more innocents. Do you see the difference? Apparently liberals do not.