I may be incredibly naive, but it seems to me that the problem with extracting information from Iraqi war prisoners via torture and intimidation isn't that these same tactics will be employed against our own soldiers should they be taken captive. Rather, it's that whatever information is finally extracted is very likely to be either false or intended to lead those who act on it into traps.
In other words, these tactics increase the risk that our soldiers will be ambushed and killed.
While the current administration seems incapable of planning ahead, I am almost daily reminded of the last press conference by the Iraqi Minister of Information when the Americans were already "at the gates," so to speak. He predicted that our troops would be sucked into the center of Iraq and then attacked from all sides.
Most of the attendant press seemed to be amused. But it struck me at the time that he gave no timetable when this would happen. We should not be surprised that the citizens of Mesopotamia have a much longer time horizon.