I think the word you are after there is equate - but "equivocate" is quite a good word to use when you are trying to argue that what happened in Abu Ghraib was not torture. (And remember, there are

I'm sorry you are unable to understand words with more than two sylables.

recorded cases of two prisoners dying in the course of interogation by US operatives in the prison.)

I am aware of that. But throwing statements out there (such as yours) does not help much. Provide us with names dates, whether they were being questioned by U.S. Military, or were they being questioned by the CIA? We need to find out who killed the people. then punish those that are guilty.

Since you insist on throwing charges around; the onus is on you to provide useful so we can do research, and if it is true; comntact the White House, the congress members, etc to get those activities stopped, and punish the guilty persons.

However there appears to be evidence that some of what appears to be pre-interrogation softening-up shown in the pictures, really needs to be seen in the context of what happens in US prisons back home - there's a passage in this story that is relevant here:

Some people are just cruel.

Two Bears