Waterboarding/Geneva Conventions

So originally I was going to have this blog post to be about waterboarding, which for those of you who may not know anything about, back in around November, Congress had this sparked interest in torture, as in what constitutes as torture because well, people found about how the CIA still uses this technique as a means of getting information even though it has been banned for the military in 2005 by Congress [as said by commondreams.org].
Now 2005, that's pretty recent considering that this method of obtaining information has been around since the Middle Ages. Now based on an article I read on ABC News' website called History of an Interrogation Technique: Water Boarding there was mention on the laws of war, better known to some, namely myself, those things that were established during the Geneva Convenions.

The point that I'm actually trying to get here, is that while reading that ABC article, what hit me was the quote that Darius Rejali, who happens to be a professor at Reed College, was ' "Even when you're fighting against belligerents who don't respect the laws of war, we are obliged to hold the laws of war," said Rejali. "And water torture is torture." ' Now let's ignore the fact that a professor just made a fallacy by saying water torture is torture, [I mean come on, begging the question anyone?] and focus on the fact that he quoted laws of war, now that really made me think about the Geneva Conventions, now I'm paraphrasing here and this is all from memory, in that if a soldier sees that something is wrong and that he/she believes that is wrong, despite what his commanding officer is telling him, he is allowed to disobey. Now that sounds all good and dandy, but how well does that hold? In talking to three active duty soldiers at Ft. Lewis, who did not want their names included, they all had pretty much the same response to this, that they still have to follow whatever they are being told, I tried pushing the laws of war, and they kept pushing back that no, it does not work like that, that you could not disobey, and the person that disobeyed would be the one that suffered.

This brings me to the question: How worried should we be about this?
Being only someone that recently realized this, [I'm sure we can all name a Hollywood movie that brings this about somehow but never really truly took seriously because come on, its Hollywood] I have to wonder what exactly we don't know is going on. There is just so much that is not revealed to the public, especially to the United States public, let's face the fact, we are usually only worried about what's going on specifically with the US. Try BBC or some other countries news station and they talk about what's going on everywhere in the world, but that's another blog post.