The Bush Administration's Attempt to "Redefine Torture Out of Existence"

Andrew Sullivan compares the criteria for "enhanced interrogation" with those for rape. A quote:

"Raping someone need not leave any long-term physical scars; it certainly doesn't permanently impair any bodily organ; it has no uniquely graphic dimensions - the comic book pulling-fingernail scenarios the know-nothings in the Bush administration viewed as torture; and although it's cruel, it's hardly unusual."