Thankfully Steven Bradbury has finally come up with a definition of torture.
"pain suffered by a prisoner had to be both severe and long-lasting for an interrogation tactic to be considered torture".
Based on his enlightening testimony, I can now firmly describe other things that our government may find perfectly legal.
Rape is not torture.
Forcing a man to eat his own feces is not torture
Making a man ejaculate in front of his jailers is not torture
Having a dozen people spit on a man is not torture.
Placing a cage around someone's head and putting live rats in it is not torture
Having a man raped by farm animals is not torture
Waterboarding using urine is not torture
Keeping a man in a small enclosed box underground is not torture.
placing snakes in a man's rectum is not torture
Listening to the Bush administration defend "enhanced interrogation" is not torture
Thank you for setting the record straight, Mr Bradbury. The American people should know what were fighting for!
I'm angry.