Wel, there's been a lot of news on waterboarding over the last few months. And in 2002 I believe, Bush signed an order allowing waterboarding. But the reason for the mention of waterboarding was this link here:

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/...d.php?t=448717

Some guy tried waterboarding on himself and later described how terrifying it was. PZ made a comment on it in an earlier post and got mixed responses: http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2...oarding_is.php

He decided to clarify in another post which I copied and pasted in my OP.