How would you know whether or not there are nightmares? It gives the sensation of drowning, and makes a person unconcious.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15900592

^A description of waterboarding from someone who has been put through it. I know it doesn't sound like much when he describes it, but if you consider the fact that he ended up lying to just get it to stop, and that it made it so he couldn't breathe, I think you can see that it is torture. Maybe not the worst torture possible, but still torture, and that is not acceptable. I'm not an expert, but considering that pretty much everyone except for one president's administration considers it torture, it's torture unless other findings are....found. x]

Why are you against global cooperation?

Don't you understand that the only way to keep peace in the world is to work with other nations? We my have to make a compromise here or there, but at the same time we can make sure that dictators don't kill hundreds of thousands of their citizens, make sure that people's basic human rights are respected, and ensure that industries in foreign nations don't destroy our planet.

Like it or not we all live on this earth together, and the more we cooperate with each other the better our stay will be.

1. U.N. doesn't impose taxes on us. And they have no other power over us other than what we choose, that's kind of the point of the whole thing.

2. Our soldiers don't wear blue helmets, least not when they're at war.

3. Our people aren't held responsible to the UN, but they should be held responsible to contracts we sign... like say torture:

Torture in all forms is banned by the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), which the United States participated in drafting. The United States is a party to the following conventions (international treaties) which prohibit torture: the American Convention on Human Rights (signed 1977) and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (signed 1977; ratified 1992). It has neither signed nor ratified the Inter-American Convention to Prevent and Punish Torture.[2] International law defines torture during an armed conflict as a war crime. It also mandates that any person involved in ordering, allowing and even insuffuciently preventing and prosecuting war crimes is criminally liable under the command responsibility doctrine.

4. Again, they're not.

So, it seems to me you just made a bunch of stuff up. Which makes you pretty much 100% for just making stuff up so far on this site. Congratulations.