OK. It looks to me like we're torturing Saddam Hussein. Sleep deprivation has historically been used as torture... we're now combining it with sedatives to make it worse... we're doing rapid temperature changes in his room... forced extended standing... continual light followed by continual darkness... God know what else we're doing... in all probability, that charming "restraint and hooding" that were all the rage in Afghanistan.
In my book, it's all torture. The government says it's not. No. We would never stoop to torture. Ours are "softer methods"... softer tortures, I suppose, than what we were teaching in the School of the Americas... but since we took great pains to declare him a P.O.W., shouldn't he be immune from torture? Or is the Geneva Convention there just to protect Americans?
http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=2304719
http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/12/14/cnna.wedgewood
there's lots and lots more.
Do a google search on:
"sleep deprivation" saddam