Reply #4: No rape with broomsticks and chemical lights, no forced masturbation,

[daleo]

no vicious dogs biting their testicles, no smearing with feces, no rape of teenage boys, no being beaten to death and left to die in the shower, etc. They sound like amateurs compared with U.S. forces in Iraq. Maybe some lessons from Rummy and Miller are in order.

"The report documents the systematic use of prolonged solitary confinement as a tool to break the will of dissidents, and as a means to extract forced confessions. Individuals interviewed for the report, including a number of writers and journalists, told Human Rights Watch about brutal interrogations in which they were blindfolded, physically threatened, and forced to recant their political views. Former detainees also described basement solitary cells where they were left for weeks at a time without any human contact, and threats by judges that if they did not confess, they would be held in solitary confinement indefinitely."

"Student activists told Human Rights Watch about physical torture experienced at the hands of plainclothes security and intelligence agents. The report documents cases of beatings, long confinement in contorted positions, kicking detainees with military boots, hanging detainees by the arms and legs, and threats of execution if individuals refused to confess."