[Just another Joe]

And again, it will take more than this to convince me that the US military are torturing prisoners.

I'm arguing from a position of IF they have/did/do/will.
Dramatics?

[Truthsearcher]

Exactly, all I said I hope it isn't true, and that *if* we are doing it, it is wrong and we should stop.

Nowhere did I say there is conclusive evidence that we are actually doing it.

[L,TOWM]

Dramatics?
IF this is true, that American military has tortured prisoners, then I'm not sure that this is the same country that I've known for the last 45 yrs. This stuff sounds more like the old Russian KGB than the U.S. Army.

Dramatics. Over a couple of shots to two illegal combatants.

If we're talking about the CIA alternating sodium pentathol injections with electrodes on the nuts being administered to a domestic dissenter; for example, that idiot college professor in New Mexico that said "Anyone who blows up the Pentagon has my vote", than we have a valid analogy.

OK dramatics may not have been fully accurate either. Let's try 'hyperbole' on for size.