Quote Originally Posted by HURRICANEBOB View Post
It's both. The physical trauma of a near drowning sensation causes reduced will to resist. The fear of having to endure that sensation again makes compliance a less painful alternative.

Ever hear someone say "Answer me or I'll hold you down till you bubble"? Same thing.
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I'm guessing the persons we capture do have information that is useful to us but me like a lot of other folks aren't sure how far we should go in extracting that information, if we are going to get any information there has to be some means we can use to do so and water boarding seem to be the lesser of most of the evils I have heard about, I'm sure most of these individuals aren't too forth coming with what they might know.