The Telegraph reports “Others yet to be released reportedly show military guards threatening to sexually assault a detainee with a broomstick.” If there was just the threat that was never carried out, that is definitely not torture.
The Telegraph also reports “hooded prisoners on transport planes with Playboy magazines opened to pictures of nude women on their laps.” If the prisoners have a hood on them, they definitely do not know a picture of a naked well-endowed woman is in there lap. If they knew, a lot of male prisoners would insist that the hoods be removed so they could look at the pictures. Maybe knowing there was a picture of a naked woman on your lap and you could not see it could possibly be called torture; it just depends on how recently the prisoners had sex.
Extreme and severe are words used to define torture. Pulling out fingernails, dislocation shoulders over and over again, chopping off fingers a knuckle at a time, drilling and probing live teeth and slowly cutting off someone’s head is torture. Causing people to jump from a hundred-story window instead of burning to death is torture. Trapping others and having them burn to death is torture.
Some of these enemy combatants are known to have performed the cruelest real torture
John McCain was tortured for real! That is why he cannot move one of his arms well. When the slowly cut off Daniel Perl’s head and other American heads, that was torture.
I believe that the only reason the Democrats want to redefine torture is to make their wet dream come true: seeing Bush and Cheney frog-walked in public to jail, tried in court of crimes against humanity, and sent to prison for life. Their hatred is so intense, extreme and severe, that they would destroy America if it meant they could see W in a prison cell.
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