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jumpmaster1 year, 5 months ago

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Nothing in the article talked about smashing prisoners' teeth out with a rifle butt or making the prisoners eat their own feces.
These are just two of the dandies that Hussein's boys practiced on captured coalition soldiers during Desert Storm.
If we can just get the rest of the world to sign up for a no torture program then I would support 100%, the banning of torture.
You don't hear about too many American soldiers taken prisoner in Iraq, do you? Any guesses why? They know that they will be tortured, maimed, and have their heads sawn off. So the word is out. Fight to the death and don't get taken prisoner.

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  bubba21 year, 5 months ago
  
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  If every other country kills every citizen when they reach the age of 60, does that mean that America should start doing that?
  The "everyone else does it" argument is fallacious. And, it is dishonest.
  A BUNCH of wrongs to NOT make a right.
  Just because other countries may torture their prisoners, that does NOT justify Americans torturing ANYONE.
  What you condone is America LOWERING its standards to fit everyone else's, instead of CONTINUING the higher standards that make our country one to be admired and respected.
  What you condone is wrong - period.
  
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    jumpmaster1 year, 5 months ago
    
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    You seem to have figured it out. What do you suggest as an alternative?
    
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      donald511 year, 5 months ago
      
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      ...do the harder right you damn fool!
      
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        jumpmaster1 year, 5 months ago
        
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        So you don't have any suggestions either. You know what not to do but you don't know what TO do. How do you come up with an action plan only knowing what not to do.
        
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        donald511 year, 5 months ago
        
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        ...you must have been asleep during those annual Geneva Convention classes required in the military! Doing the harder right is no problem with people who actually have scrupples and a conscience!
        
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        jumpmaster1 year, 5 months ago
        
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        What branch of the service did you serve in? In what phase of your training did they teach about the Geneva Convention?
        
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        jumpmaster1 year, 5 months ago
        
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        In what phase of your military training did you learn about the Geneva Convention?
        
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      bubba21 year, 5 months ago
      
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      I suggest NO torture.
      Treat a prisoner as a prisoner - question them, confine them as anyone would be confined at a standard prison in America.
      The people that condone torture just will NOT accept the mounds of proof that it doesn't work.
      The HUGE irony of McCain' endorsing Bush's policy on torture is that HE was tortured and he STILL LIED to his captors. He told them what they WANTED to hear so that they would stop the torture.
      McCain knows - FIRST HAND - that torture doesn't work. Yet he throws out his integrity by supporting the very thing he knows is wrong.
      
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        jumpmaster1 year, 5 months ago
        
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        bubba,
        I don't totally agree with your idea but I appreciate that you have an idea and are willing to voice it.
        The world has plenty of opinions but ideas seem to be in short supply.
        
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  donald511 year, 5 months ago
  
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  Hey Jump. got no scrupples at all guy!
  So do unto others what they do to you even if you have lived and agreed to the Geneva Conventions up to Dumya!
  Dumya called the war on terror an ideological battle, but you already want to give away the high moral ground! You are Un-American and an unscruppled fool too!
  
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