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To: Oeconomicus who wrote (37713)	7/8/2005 8:40:38 PM
From: one_less	Respond to of 90947

Arguing with you, some would call torture, some a pleasure; but we keep coming back for more.

To: Oeconomicus who wrote (37713)	7/8/2005 9:31:21 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

I may be wrong, but I thought the experts in such things - at least in the US - concluded a long time ago that beatings were not effective in getting useful information and that psychological methods worked better. Qualification. Physical torture. What you describe I would NOT call torture (with possibly a few qualifications, such as extreme sleep deprivation). Why? For the reasons you bring up below. The left has repeatedly charged US forces with torture. Of course, some on the whiny left consider all forms of coercion, whether physical or purely psychological, to be torture on par with the worst of Hitler, Stalin and Saddam Hussein. Correct. Exactly. That's why. And their claims are absurd.