[ShadowMarth]

Perhaps, but the point is, if you justify torture in any case, people WILL abuse it. Like the article says, very few of the people tortured in Iraq were actually terrorists, or even guilty of anything. You don't regulate something so blatantly wrong, you ban it. Either you are for cruel and unusual punishment, or you are against it. If you are for it, you are un-American. That's not hyperbole. In the Bill of Rights it names protection from cruel and unusual punishment as an INALIENABLE right.