From: Adam Flinton 

Gene McAloon wrote:
> On Sun, 06 Jun 2004 00:20:11 +0100, Adam Flinton 
> wrote:
>
>
>>This sophistry gets better & better. "physical
stress" etc & now...
>>"intense interrogation techniques"
>>
>>
>>There are single words which describe all this....rather than resorting
>>to a whole phrase...
>>
>>At least we now know Saddam didn't have any "torture
chambers" oh no..
>>he had "intense interrogation technique chambers".
>
>
> You are blowing wind as usual. Naturally you would prefer the word
"torture"
to
> any other. But in fact not all the thing done, although forbidden by the
Geneva
> Conventions, can be called that. I know that must be disappointing to you,
but
> that is the reality.

Bollox. Beating someone to death with the aim of extracting information is
torture. A number of the various techniques already detailed e.g
waterboarding is torture It is unsurprizing that you are willing to try to
excuse American use of torture coz heck Stalin found it usefull so it must
be OK.

Adam

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