Torture vs. Interrogation

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Originally Posted by manasecret

Let's turn this question around:

If our enemies used waterboarding today to extract information from U.S. prisoners, and then those U.S. prisoners were released and we had the ability to prosecute the people who did the waterboarding or ordered it to be done, should and would they be prosecuted for torture?

Another question would be, would we even have the right to do that anymore?

I mean, when it REALLY happend to US soldiers we threw a big hissy-fit over it. But now that we stooped to that level, who the hell are we to tell someone else how to act in times of war?