Us allows "rendering" of innocent foreign nationals and defines torture narrowly as a treatment resulting in major organ failure or death. Low-level soldiers are punished for media leaks resulting from implementing Bush administration policies.
"From all continents come endless, disturbing information about the human rights situation, revealing that men, women and children are being tortured and their dignity being made a mockery of.... It is all of humanity which has been wounded and ridiculed," John Paul II said.