Pardon me if I say DUH!
You asked me to define what are acceptable methods of torture and I say this is a red herring. So is talk of sexual torture and rape. If you'll recall, the soldiers at Abu Ghraib were prosecuted without benefit of the McCain Amendment. What the McCain Amendment will do is make it impossible to use even the simplest of interrogation techniques without fear of being prosecuted.
(Ask a CPA about accounting tasks? I'm slapping my hand on my forehead and saying, "Who'd a thunk?". And for the past 10 years I've had Joe's Torture and Interrogation Supply Company do my taxes!)</SARCASM>
The problem with this thread in its entirety is that people attack the posters, not the issue. That's the only reason I got into it in the first place. When FReepers insist on putting other FReepers down, they waste time that could have been spent refining the arguments. Over and out.