I did not say that, so don't say I did. I said the left and the media are the ones blowing the trumpet over any imagination of torture. How about answering Longeyes original point and the one I agree with. Now the people on the pointy end of the stick are hesistating while their enemies are not. The people here screaming about waterboarding and Gitmo want us to fail, they crave an emasculated America for some reason I do not understand.
I guess I have a different definition of torture than you do. "Interrogation" is sitting at a table, and you ask me questions. "Torture" is when I say "I can't tell you anything else," and you then proceed to abuse me to force something out of me.
Be honest -- when that boatload of British Navy types were grabbed by Iran some months ago, basicly they were detained separately, deprived of sleep, and perhaps not fed three squares ever day. They were reported as having been "tortured." Yet you want to claim that waterboarding and other "harsh interrogation techniques" aren't torture? Gimme a break. If you would complain if you were the subject -- it's torture. If I had been captured in Vietnam and subjected to waterboarding or some of those other forms of "harsh iterrogation techniques" -- I'd be telling people I was tortured.
We can't hold the moral high ground if we adopt a double standard. Anything we would call torture if done to our people has to be acknowledged as torture if/when we do it to the other side.
