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Arnifin,

You are assuming, without truth for such assumptions, that regardless of what discrete instances of abuse by soldiers who have been and are being tried for same, that either such was done with approval of superiors at the highest levels, and/or that aggressive interrogations to induce prisoners to reveal information, and which aren't on the level of true torture as practice by other regimes like Saddam's, are in fact torture and innappropriate. Subjecting prisoners who by right could have been summarily executed as combattants out of uniform, to very mild physical and to psychological coercion that it produces (sleep deprivation and such) is not really torture, and in view of the ability of terrorists to inflict casualties on mass scales to civilian populations, justified in these circumstances. And any contrary viewpoints from appeasing weak minded europeans and their american psuedo-sophisticate wannabes where we just have to accept the refusal of terrorists to willingly provide intel needed to save lives are just examples of why our enemies look on us as weak foes who deserve to be defeated.

Arguments like yours all depend on definitions of terms which gives way too much concern to the rights of terrorist prisoners, and not nearly enough to their past and potential future victims.