Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2004/05/14/torture_at_abu_ghraib_followed_cias_manual/ While looking over articles and pictures about the torture that was preformed in the prisons, Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo bay, It was shocking to think that the US would allow such torture. Just looking at certain pictures of the prisoners being forced to hold strange positions for hours with no food or water, and then having people pose behind them with a thumbs up! What kind of sick person can do such a thing. I understand that the people they are "interrogating" are terrorists or so called terrorists, but that does not mean that you preform such acts of torture. These men are psychologically scared for life, and what if this psychological method of torturing doesn't help gain intelligence, what if it makes it worse. Psychologically stunning a person can change all the answers a person might be given. The prisoner can be hallucinating, or might not even understand what  is going on and what is being asked. 

There is a point and a comparison in here somewhere....After watching 24 and seeing how Jack Bower, (I hope thats how you spell his name), tortures people for valuable information, physically or psychologically, either way there could be false information handed to you. How do you know the person you are torturing is telling the truth when they are screaming for mercy? I am against torture, everything that has to do with it, maybe because I feel its inhumane. Thats besides the point, the real picture, how do you know if the person is telling the truth? How do you know that using physical torture compared to psychological torture works? That is why i feel torture is inhumane, you are killing a person slowly to obtain information out of them, but there is always that question of is that information false.