Sorry POWs, you actually weren't tortured.

NYT reports detaineee interrogation instructions found to have been

...copied verbatim from a 1957 Air Force study of Chinese Communist techniques used during the Korean War to obtain confessions, many of them false, from American prisoners. The recycled chart is the latest and most vivid evidence of the way Communist interrogation methods that the United States long described as torture became the basis for interrogations both by the military at the base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and by the Central Intelligence Agency.

How convenient. When these tactics are being used against our soldiers, we call it torture. But when it comes to the U.S. using identical methods, we'll tear apart Geneva on the basis of prison location, type of prisoner, etc.-- because those are the variables that constitute torture, not the actions.