On Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:42:56 -0500, gfretwell wrote:


That is a nice living room discussion but people in combat situations
sometimes do not make those distinctions. I am not even sure that was
framed as "torture" in the training, just as an interrogation technique.
One of the guys I have known most of my life was in Force Recon
(Marines) That is why I know what Nov 10 is ;-) The trainers beat the
crap out of them in training and went out of their way to harden them to
death, pain and general misery. It is pretty hard to tell these guys,
splashing a little water in someone's face is torture.

*If* splashing a little water was all that happened. An estimated 100
detainees died during, or immediately after, interrogations. I don't
think splashing a little water could do that. Torture could.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-a...ured-to-death/

http://www.aclu.org/human-rights/us-...istan-and-iraq