According to the Bush junta, US POWs in Vietnam WERE NOT TORTURED

In all the discussion of John McCain's recently recovered memory of a
religious epiphany in Vietnam, one thing has been missing. The torture
that was deployed against McCain and against all other Americans held
in North Vietnamese prisons emerges in all the various accounts. It
involved sleep deprivation, the withholding of medical treatment,
stress positions, long-time standing, and beating. Sound familiar?

According to the Bush administration's definition of torture, McCain
and other US POWs were NOT tortured.

Cheney denies that McCain was tortured; as do Bush and Rumsfeld. So do
John Yoo and David Addington and George Tenet.

In the one indisputably authentic version of the story of a
Vietnamese guard showing compassion, McCain talks of the agony of long-
time standing. A quarter century later, Don Rumsfeld was putting his
signature to memos lengthening the agony of "long-time standing" that
victims of Bush's torture regime would have to endure.

These torture techniques are, according to the president of the United
States, merely "enhanced interrogation."

So, the next time a McCain supporter tells you that he was tortured as
a POW in Vietnam, remind them that McCain was merely subjected to
"enhanced interrogation" techniques.
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