We're Waiting . . .
Prayers are with the loved ones of the two soldiers who were brutalized and murdered by our enemies in Iraq.
I wonder how long it will take for all the "usual suspects" in the Democratic party and abroad who are so worried about the well-fed prisoners at Guantanamo to weigh in. Where are the fevered denunciations about this breach of the Geneva Conventions?
I wonder how long it will take for all the "usual suspects" in the Democratic party and abroad who are so worried about the well-fed prisoners at Guantanamo to weigh in. Where are the fevered denunciations about this breach of the Geneva Conventions?
posted by LadybugUSA at 9:01 PM
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And the pro-tirture contingent weighs in...
Pete the Ignorant writes, You cannot equate college level humiliation with wanton murder.
"Iraqi Maj. Gen. Abed Hamed Mowhoush was being stubborn with his American captors, and a series of intense beatings and creative interrogation tactics were not enough to break his will. On the morning of Nov. 26, 2003, a U.S. Army interrogator and a military guard grabbed a green sleeping bag, stuffed Mowhoush inside, wrapped him in an electrical cord, laid him on the floor and began to go to work. Again.
"It was inside the sleeping bag that the 56-year-old detainee took his last breath through broken ribs, lying on the floor beneath a U.S. soldier in Interrogation Room 6 in the western Iraqi desert. Two days before, a secret CIA-sponsored group of Iraqi paramilitaries, working with Army interrogators, had beaten Mowhoush nearly senseless, using fists, a club and a rubber hose, according to classified documents." [Cite]
"An alleged Iraqi insurgent, Manadel Jamadi, died under intense CIA questioning at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison outside Baghdad about 19 months ago." [Cite]
So, Pete, what exactly was your point? Are you calling these deaths college level humiliation or were you merely parrotting some talking point you heard on Fox, Rush, or from Carol?
Carol, you were decidedly pro-torture when the US served as torturer. On what moral high ground are you now standing?
Yet more hypocrisy from the ranks of the Platt-Liebau.
Oh, yeah, just 'cause I'm sure Carol and Pete are too dim to grasp this on their own. I do condemn the torture of members of the US military.
Unlike Carol and the rest of her hallelujah chorus, I can make this condemnation without being hypocritical, because I have opposed torture in all circumstances.
Most sadly, a universal condemnation of torture used to be one of the hallmarks of the United States of America and its citizens. No longer.
Amber, I am sorry that you have decided that torture is an American value.
Let me simplify, Either you think it's America and our military policies that are to blame for this henious act, or you think it's the barbaric Islamic Jihadists that are to blame...which is it?
Carol asked a simple question:
What will be the reaction from those who condemn America's treatment of POWs in GITMO to the brutal murder of American soldiers by Islamic Terrorists?
The answer:
More condemnation of America!
Pete the Ignorant writes, " Oh, twisted, my hero! You've taken the high ground against torture!"
Which is something you and the rest of Carol's hallelujah chorus have yet to do. Being opposed to torture used to be considered an American value.
Pete continues with "However, to equate the naked razing of prisoners to REAL torture and beheadings of American troops is an exercise in stupidity!"
Pete, as I noted in response to your previous ignorant rant--we are not talking about naked razing of prisoners. Detainees have died because of US torture. At least dignify their death by not being intentionally ignorant.
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