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Iraq Treatment "Not Torture” Says Rumsfeld.
Donald Rumsfeld today categorically refused any idea that the word torture could be applied to the interrogation techniques used by US forces on Iraqi prisoners.
He told a press conference that the shocking practices of stripping, sexual humiliation, beating, hooding and forced sex-simulation between prisoners could not be classed as torture. "And therefore I'm not going to address the torture word,." he told a press conference.
Asked by Charles Ritique of France’s Le Monde newspaper, if he thought such treatment was reasonable, Mr Rumsfeld accepted that it was not.
“No this sort of thing isn’t what we want to see our boys doing.” he said. “But I don’t like the term torture. I prefer to call it nastiness. In the end it doesn’t matter what you call it, all that matters is that we won’t be seeing any more of this nastiness ever again.”
Following the press conference the Pentagon announced an official ban on cameras of all descriptions within the US armed forces.
See also : Bush denies double prison standards in Iraq and USA
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