Not Quite Right

Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4499528.stm

For some convoluted definition of torture. Obviously one of the things the Republicans do admire about Bill Clinton is his way with words - and the way he defines words to dodge a bullet.
No, grabbing someone's shirt or slapping their face (once) doesn't constitute torture in most peoples' books. But the US standard doesn't define a limit to the number of slaps, and being slapped back and forth for hours is torture. Similarly sleep deprivation, which can kill people, is psychological torture. As for water-boarding, well, it waddles like a duck, it quacks like a duck, it's got webbed feet and a bill, and it has feathers. Blow me down if it doesn't look like a duck from every angle.

Between Cheyney and Shrub, the top of the stack is firmly against making US forces and intelligence officers behave in line with the standards of decency that they claim to be seeking to bring to the rest of the globe.
Civilised countries don't use torture. It's very simple. The information gained is suspect, to say the least, because a prisoner who's being tortured will say anything to make the pain stop. If you need good leads, torture's not any kind of certain way to get them.

It's yet another example of the complete moral bankruptcy of the very top of the Republicans.