Why is it only "tantamount to torture"?
Should be all-out, no doubts about it, full-blown, pedal to the metal, unbearable, spill your guts kind of torture.
Should be all-out, no doubts about it, full-blown, pedal to the metal, unbearable, spill your guts kind of torture.
Exactly.
I looked up "tantamount" just to be sure I was interpreting it correctly. Definition: equivalent in value, significance, or effect
So, if they're saying that the treatment of the prisoners is equivalent to torture, they're saying it's torture. Except it isn't or the Red Cross would have said so.
My opinion is that it's Red Cross doublespeak, it doesn't mean anything. And furthermore, I don't care what the Red Cross says. Aren't they the ones that kept a lot of the donation money from 9/11 away from the victims, until the law forced them to pay it out? Don't they still have some of that donation money, intended for the 9/11 victims and their familes, on some miserable pretext or other?
Is that right? Huh. So I suppose you think all the beheadings in Iraq are just peachy keen?
You people get all righteous and indignant when US citizens are tortured abroad, but you seem to be all for it when it is the US government doing the torture. Countries that condone or participate in torture are uncivilized and savage. That is the long and the short of it. The United States should neither participate in nor condone such actions. Those that engage in torture should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, and spend the better part of their natural lives breaking rocks in rural Kansas.