Anyone who considers waterboarding to not be torture should be waterboarded. Let’s see if it changes their minds then. I’ll be glad to be the one to hold ol’ Bushie down during the procedure. 
The ethics of torture to me, are much like conflict of interest. If you think there might be a conflict of interest, there is. It doesn’t matter if you really, absolutely feel there is one or not. That’s the general standard that’s used. If a reasonable person suspects a certain action could be construed as a conflict of interest, it usually is considered to be one.
If a particular action seems like torture, and some think it might be torture, then for all practical purposes it IS torture. Torture isn’t something with a solid black line that you can step right up to and feel clean about. There’s a grey area. Waterboarding is eitehr grey, or black in this analogy. I seriously doubt anyone considers it “white”. The intent of the Geneva Convention was not to say “don’t do something to a prisoner that every person on Earth considers torture”, its purpose is to outlaw governments from doing anything to prisoners that is ethically wrong. Even if that’s not in the wording, it’s what is meant. What are we if we result to torturing people to feel safe? How can we sleep at night knowing what we’ve done? On top of it all, torture has very low accuracy in its results. Under torture, people talk. They’ll say anything. So what are we really accomplishing doing this? I am ashamed of this government for continuing these horrific acts in the name of protecting America.