10-12-2007, 12:39 PM
|
#11 (permalink)
|
| Partisan  Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Los Angeles Gender:  Posts: 9,979 Country:  Points: 31,262, Level: 100 | Level up: 0%, 0 Points needed |  |  Quote:
Originally Posted by sgtdmski  I am sorry, but putting someone in an uncomfortable position, keeping them awake, blaring music, forcing them to endure different extremes of temperatures, and even water boarding are not torture. They may make an individual uncomfortable, however, they do not cause severe pain or suffering, which is the international law definition.
dmk | Bush said last week that the US Govt does not torture detainees.
Which leaves open the whole question of extradition to other countries which DO torture those same detainees - including Egypt, Romania, Pakistan and others.
I think the official US definition of torture requires broken bones and damage to internal organs.
Psychological torture is excluded, for example repeated playing of Barbara Streisand's Greatest Hits at full volume, which most reasonable people would consider to be cruel, unusual and sadistic.
|