Quote: Captain Sammitch said: Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't torture defined as inflicting actual bodily harm on someone? Everything else seems to fall under the heading of abuse which is still not the best way to go, but certainly isn't an atrocity on par with Japanese mistreatment of American POWs in WWII or any other incident of actual torture in history.
At the risk of tossing in another political stereotype, I'm not terribly surprised that politicizers who equate hurt feelings with offensive violation of their civil rights would muddy the definition of torture and waste valuable campaign time attacking the straw man by insinuating that Bush or his administration is ordering war crimes, which is essentially unprovable.
If I have you bound and repeatedly threaten to shoot you with a rifle, I would be imprisoned.
Why should that not be a crime if I happened to be a member of the US Army, and I was doing it to an Iraqi detainee?
