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No, it's not just "particular" non-Americans, because then you'd see Republicans debate in their forum what criteria should be used to determine those "particulars" -- WHICH I'VE NEVER SEEN THEM DO. The more accurate relation is just this: Republicans support torturing non-Americans. They support torturing certain kinds of non-Americans more than other kinds, but there's never been a torture of a non-American by Americans that they've ever found a legal or moral problem with. Not even taxi-drivers that were tortured to death for being in the wrong place.
Being a non-American is the sufficient condition for most Republicans to support the right of Americans to torture you, even to death.
That's been my impression from the Republican forums I've had the misfortune to observe.
I spent several years hanging around in the warblogger community around 2003. I literally have no idea what you're referring to. Yes, a lot of people were very happy when Saddam Hussein got hanged, myself included. Some(though not all) favoured waterboarding in extreme circumstances. Absolutely nobody would have favoured taking a cheese grater to a random Canadian.