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To: cnyndwllr who wrote (6489)	5/21/2007 10:18:34 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10087

That might be a nice point of discussion for an academic group but what the Bush Administration means by "enhanced interrogation techniques" is clearly "torture. Not just for an academic discussion group, but also for practical and political discussions. And no its no clearly torture. Water boarding might reasonably be considered torture but torture "reasonably considered" is not the same as clearly, and without any doubt or possibility of reasonable disagreement". I don't have a problem with considering torture, I think I consider it to be torture myself (although probably not as bad as a number of other forms), but I don't think its a matter where discussion can simply be shut down with a simple declaration that its clearly torture, and that any discussion is merely "academic". Most of the other known techniques like sleep deprivation, are much further from being clearly torture, or are not torture at all.