Statements Related to Waterboarding is not torture because it was used in training US soldiers (SERE)

• CIA and UK relied upon intelligence garnered from victims of Uzbeki torture (1+/0- justifications)
• The US used torture to fabricate a reason to invade Iraq (5+/0- justifications)
• Soldiers retuning home face disincentives to participate in therapy (1+/0- justifications)
• There are as many contractors as soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan (1+/0- justifications)
• The US continues to torture under Barack Obama (1+/0- justifications)
• US soldiers are publicly refusing to deploy (2+/0- justifications)
• John Kiriakou lied about the waterboarding of Abu Zubaydah (1+/0- justifications)
• David Addington and Alberto Gonzales convinced John Yoo to make up a legal argument that the President could authorize illegal torture (4+/0- justifications)
• Waterboarding is torture (3+/1- justifications)
• US federal criminal law forbids torture (1+/0- justifications)
• The threat of imminent death is torture (1+/0- justifications)
• Waterboarding induces a sensation of suffocation by drowning (0+/0- justifications)
• Senior officials in Bush II's administration (including Vice President Cheney) conspired to torture detainees (1+/0- justifications)
• Vice President Dick Cheney is guilty of conspiring to torture, a US federal criminal offense punishable by life imprisonment or death (4+/0- justifications)
• Lawful interrogation is more effective than torture (1+/0- justifications)
• Federal criminal law only forbids the commission of torture outside the United States (1+/0- justifications)
• US officials were authorized to use illegal "enhanced interrogation techniques" by the "torture memos" written by Jay Bybee, John Yoo, and other Office of Legal Counsel attorneys (0+/0- justifications)
• Several Bush II executives conspired to commit torture (1+/0- justifications)
• While commanding in Iraq, General McChrystal joined combat soldiers in action (1+/0- justifications)
• Americans for Prosperity is training Tea Party activists (1+/0- justifications)
• Pat Tillman was murdered by other U.S. soldiers (1+/0- justifications)
• Giving police officers military equipment causes them to behave like soldiers (2+/0- justifications)