nails are not an organ. skin is. it doesn't matter what "your" definition is, we don't get to rewrite the dictionary at will. Semantics are not a game, they are the meanings of words. that said; I would venture a guess that most people would tend to agree that we should not be exempt from the generally agreed upon conventions that most decent countries are expected to follow. Those conventions explicitly exclude torture as a reasonable way to treat a POW. On this topic, John McCain is the man.