[muawiyah]

The point of the torture convention is pain and suffering done solely for the purpose of pain and suffering ~ the kind of thing we mere citizens would like to inflict on politicians who screw us over, or foreigners who attack us, or MSM types who insult us.

That's what's prohibited.

Now, if you should cause pain and suffering as an "incidental" while, perhaps, blowing their brains out with a shotgun, that's actually OK!

We'd best keep that in mind come the revolution ~ wouldn't want to get in trouble with the UN or anything. So, keep it clean, keep it legal ~ jus' kill 'em.

(NOTE: Hope I got across to everyone the profound hypocrisy the Leftwingtards and Do-Gooders got into putting that convention together).

[Edit35]

if you should cause pain and suffering as an "incidental" while ....

That's the entire point.

Under ObamaWimps definition, a prison could suffer "torture" if that prisoner was claustrophobic and thus suffered mental pain from being locked up in a small cell.

Or a terror suspect could claim "torture" (mental pain and anguish) if that terror suspect was given non-Muslim food, of if that prisoner was not allowed to have Mecca prayer rugs....