R.H. Lee
There's no way you can take a rulebook out, point to opposing pages, and say, "Here: This is torture... this one isn't."
One of the tactics used against Iraqi men involved strapping them immobile and then raping their teenage children in front of them. Since the men themselves were not harmed, or even touched, were they then not tortured?
History has proven that torture itself is counter-productive. And it's definitely not what we Americans think of as the way we should choose to live our lives (or, by example, how we would have others live).