I did SERE training at Widbey Island in 1967 prior to going to Vietnam. Nothing they did to us was really torture by any real definition of the word. US prisoners during WWII, Korea, and Vietnam suffered real torture at the hands of their captors. And many died or suffered permanent injuries as a result.
I guess you consider what was done at Abu Ghraib as torture. We are defining torture down. What's next? Loud music? A non-halal dinner entree?
"I guess you consider what was done at Abu Ghraib as torture"
No.
Only the waterboard is torture, and a necessary one at that.
"Nothing they did to us was really torture by any real definition of the word"
Read my post #28 and tell me how you would characterize that event.