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To: Brumar89 who wrote (482321)	5/20/2009 2:07:54 PM
From: Steve Dietrich	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575624

Their purpose, Rep. Lungren observed, was to “solicit information,” And that's exactly why it's torture. As the CAT says: "For the purposes of this Convention, torture means any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or a confession ..." In the military the purpose is to train our troops to withstand torture should they be captured. And it's voluntary. Here the severe mental pain is inflicted against the detainees will to obtain information, which despite Lungren's ignorance, is part of the definition of torture... SD