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Great post, but the tragedy is that the noncoms and officers were apparently convinced that their actions did not meet the definition of "torture" as defined by the Commander-In-Chief, Rumsfeld, Cheney, et al.
These idiots still regard waterboarding, humiliation, sensory deprivation, threats by attack dogs, loud noise, etc., as intensive interrogation, not torture, and therefore OK under US military guidelines. What they failed to see is how the rest of the civilized world and thinking Americans define torture.
Their failure played into the terrorists hands.
