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Larry J — (archived)

If you honestly think that putting women's panties over someone's head is torture, then there's no reasoning with you. Playing loud music isn't torture either, except perhaps for a few modern "singers." Go talk to some former POWs, especially those who suffered under the Japanese in WWII, the North Koreans, or the North Vietnamese. If you can get them to talk about their experiences (and many won't because the memories are too painful), you'll learn what torture is. The US isn't and absolutely shouldn't do anything like that.

About 1/3rd of allied POWs died under the Japanese in WWII. According to this source:

A total of 771 Americans were captured and interned during the Vietnam War. Of those, 113 died in captivity and 658, or 85 percent, were returned to US authorities during or at the end of a grueling conflict that claimed the lives of more than 58,000 American troops in Southeast Asia.

The number of prisoners taken during the Vietnam War was relatively small. Of the 142,255 Americans captured and interned during major wars in the 20th century, a total of 17,033 died in captivity. The Korean War had the highest casualty rate among US prisoners--with 38 percent of the 7,140 prisoners perishing.

Anything like that happening in Gitmo?

http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/g490000/g490447.jpg


This is what torture victims look like. And this.

http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/g490000/g490446.jpg


Hardly looks like they were fed honey and dates, does it?

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