Torture is despicable, but there is an ongoing debate about whether anything going on at Guantanamo (as opposed to Abu Ghraib) is actually torture under the international definitions. It's not a settled issue like you're making it out to be.
Is this like the debate on climate change? Where 99.99% of the scientists agree it's man made, yet a few others think it's natural.
> It's not a settled issue like you're making it out to be.
Yeah, I think it's pretty much settled by everyone but the US government.
He wanted to show us the degree to which it is or isn't torture.