the accepted rules of war, engagement, the geneva convention, the nuremburg principles and human rights act are as follows.

in a war scenario you are allowed to kill any combatant on the opposing force, unless he has surrendered. at the point you have him prisoner he is out of the game. he is now bound by the geneva convention. at the point before that he was bound by the rules of war which allow you to shoot him. but under both points of war here he is bound by the human rights act. given the fact that he is human and all.

the geneva convention says that once you have a POW certain rules come into play. some of which are beyond the normal human rights act. because as a prisoner he is dependant on his captors so now instead of being allowed to have certain things like food and shelter these must be provided. there are even more rules surrounding the geneva conventions they are worth reading into.

but the point is at this point they are out of the game. that is it. they are totally out of the war. they are no longer soldiers but prisoners. they have no part in the war now.

war is a bloody mess were people will die. but prisoners are no longer part of the war. the bomb they set maybe. the soldier about to walk into maybe. but the prisoner who want to torture is not. he is now under the geneva convention.

and the question is where does this end? what does torture give? the truth? if so we better start buring witches again as they obviously exist look how many confessed before. they'll be plague of them nowadays.

if i'm a hard enough terrorist i'm not going to given into certain instruments of torture. you're gonna need electrocution, beatings, taking my nails off, cutting my lips, burnings to get me to talk. and even then i might just tell you random crap.

and if i'm not a terrorist at all i'm gonna tell you the first thing that comes into my head.

it doesn't work. it gives dumbass soldiers like lindy england work of their aggression on some iraqi.

the one thing that would have prevented the holocaust is if the soldiers had just refused orders. that is what caused the nurmeburg principles to be established.