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To: greenspirit who wrote (109805)	4/25/2009 5:57:04 PM
From: freelyhovering	Read Replies (1) of 541481

The 'torture' of US Marines in training had a very important difference, in terms of physical and psychological pain than the 'terrorists' that we tortured. If you know it is a training exercise and you are not going to be killed, there is limited psychological damage. If you are an 'enemy combatant', you have no idea if you are going to drowned by waterboarding or not. That causes severe psychological damage--of a lasting kind. When I was in the Army, we went thru gas mask training and while in a hut filled with gas, were instructed to take off our masks for several seconds and then allowed to leave the hut. Even though we knew it would not kill us logically, the feeling of not being able to see and breathe was quite frightening. It was done by friendly folks but if I had been a prisoner, it would be a completely different story.

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