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"You think of torture, you think of some horrendous physical act done to an individual. This was not any one particular act; this was just a combination of things that had a medical impact on him, that hurt his health. It was abusive and uncalled for. And coercive. Clearly coercive. It was that medical impact that pushed me over the edge" to call it torture, she said."
This is completely absurd. I don't think of torture that way. That's Bush's definition of torture according to the Yoo memo!
"Physical pain amounting to torture must be equivalent in intensity to the pain accompanying serious physical injury, such as organ failure, impairment of bodily function, or even death."
Its crazy that she seeks to make that view seem like some kind of global consensus, and the rest of the world's definition of torture to be some odd reality no one had ever described before this one case.
