Torture...not abuse

A thumbnail definition of torture is the systematic and on-going intimidation, abuse and/or neglect of prisoners. Why is it that more people and news organizations, not just CNN Asia, MBC in Korea and a scant few others, are not calling it what it is -- torture.

By Peter Graff
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LONDON (Reuters) - The Red Cross saw U.S. troops keeping Iraqi prisoners naked for days in darkness at the Abu Ghraib jail in October, and was told by the intelligence officer in charge it was "part of the process," a leaked report said on Monday.

The International Committee of the Red Cross also described British troops forcing Iraqi detainees to kneel and stomping on their necks in an incident in which one prisoner died.

The Red Cross said it had repeatedly alerted U.S.-led occupation authorities to practices it described as "serious violations of international humanitarian law" and "in some cases tantamount to torture."

It confirmed the confidential February 4 report, which appeared on the Wall Street Journal Web Site Monday, was genuine.
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More:
http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=5090507

... in the few minutes I endured CNN this morning, I heard the newsreader refer repeatedly to the "apparent abuse."

And now they're showing some biased report from Pennsylvania about the friends of one of the accused soldiers, defending anything he might have done.

The spin is making my head spin.

I say, "Would they have followed the order if it was to commit suicide, commit a full frontal labotomie on themselves?" or is it just they were following orders because they were torturing someone else.
By the way...we need to stop using the term abuse and start calling it torture. Make it part of the language now, before the media waters it down to prank playing.