Waterboarding apparatus and picture of use:

[theweaselking]

This is a real "waterboarding" apparatus and a picture of it in use, taken from a museum of Khmer atrocities, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

These photos are important because most of us have never seen an actual, real-life waterboard. The press typically describes it in the most anodyne ways: a device meant to "simulate drowning" or to "make the prisoner believe he might drown." But the Khymer Rouge were no jokesters, and they didn't tailor their abuse to the dictates of the Geneva Convention. They-- like so many brutal regimes--made waterboarding one of their primary tools for a simple reason: it is one of the most viciously effective forms of torture ever devised.