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Originally Posted by martyh
well that bit there seems vague ,what would be severe to some is not severe to others.
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Marty, in all seriousness and with all due respect, what the perpretators "think" in relation to the degree of severity is irrelevant.
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Originally Posted by martyh
if you read my post i stated that there is a physical aspect to waterboarding (meaning physical pain perhaps i should have been clearer)but i stand by the fact that the psychological issues can last far longer than the physical pain
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This is an irrelevance, and a clearly medically disputed irrelevance at that.
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Originally Posted by martyh
I am aware of HMG's position and fully agree with their stance ,the point i am trying to make is that not all governments will see some forms of interogation as torture as we do simply because the definition can be seen as ambiguous and in some cases open to interpretation .
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Yes Marty but in this particular case regarding Bush - as anyone with an ounce of common sense can see - any "ambiguity" or alternative interpretation exists only when it suits.
Bush presided over the jailing of a Texas police officer for torture by waterboarding before he himself advocated the intelligence bodies use of it as a viable method of "enhanced interrogation". Did he pardon the police officer and have his sentence commuted or was he pardoned? No.
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Thank you for that Hugh.