"Psychological torture (drugs, hot-cold, water, no sleep, etc.) is highly effective and, for the subject, not permanently harmful nor particularly painful...merely damned annoying."
I figure that's what happening right now...
You know who's being tortured? Our intel guys who have to listen to Saddam's bombast and bellicosity for hours on end.
Ironically, interrogators went right to work on Saddam because he seemed to be in such a tired and demoralized state when captured that they feared he would only grow stronger and more recalcitrant under the good treatment by US Forces.