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is this a fictional scenario?
if it isn't, i don't think you have the full story.
if it is a fictional scenario, then it gets derailed almost immediately because you introduce more information about the wife's politics than you provide about the action of your character in iraq, and by doing that turn this into a version of the old rightwing canard about the evil anti-war activists being mean to the returning vet, not understanding the realities of war, etc. in other words, if this is a fictional scenario, the way you write it makes it clear what you're really on about in this thread: you object to the imaginary actions of a straw man you've fashioned about people who oppose the war in iraq and are using the notion of torture to attempt to pose some question that may be deep and important to you, but which to me is neither.
if it's not a fictional scenario, then like i said you obviously don't have the whole story or chose not to include important information that explains the situation. commission or omission, it's hard to tell.
either way, if you'd spent as much attention setting up the situation in iraq as you did the red herring plotline about the poor victimized misunderstood but entirely abstract guy-who-comes-back-from-iraq as you did the wife's politics, maybe you'd get a better answer.
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