Please believe me when I say that I feel sorry for them and their familes and that these men were doing an honorable job as soldiers but how can we as a country act outraged when our own government has openly sanctioned the use of torture against others? This is why you don't do things like that.
2006-06-21 09:09:11 · 13 answers · asked by snoopy22564 4 in News & Events ➔ Media & Journalism
To bereal1 ....the president himself along with Donald Rumsfield have made public statement saying that the torture of prisoners is sometimes necessary and an accepted practice ....my proof can be found in clips from any news program
2006-06-22 01:14:15 · update #1
Wow, this guy didn't say he condoned the torture of us soldiers. He said why aren't more people angry at the US government for placing our soldiers in a situation where they are bombed, tortured and threatened every day!!! Please think about it people.
Also, in Abu Ghraib, do you think we really heard the worst of it? How about Hadithya?! We murdered children pulled from their houses. Three soldiers are under arrest just today for pulling a man out of his house and murdering him in the street. I've heard about rape by our soldiers. War is bad and our govenment is just dragging us into it more.
2006-06-21 09:57:41 · answer #1 · answered by moviegirl 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Are you on drugs? Are you honestly comparing the murder of these two soldiers to the frat-house type stuff that happened at Abu Ghraib, where not a single prisoner was killed or even physically harmed?
Are you honestly trying to tell us that we have no right to be outraged at the utter barbarism with which these men were treated?
Are you honestly trying to tell us that this compares to the "torture" that CNN likes to whine about?
By the way, it's gotten to the point where if one of our guards at Gitmo so much as looks at a prisoner funny or just calls him a dirty name, it's being classified as "torture."
Most of the accounts of "torture" that you read about are not torture at all.
I am so sick of people like you trying to morally equate things that have no moral equivalent whatsoever.
The moral relativism that the anti-war Left has adopted -- whereby they think nothing our soldiers do is any better or worse than the sadistic animals we are fighting -- has gone sickeningly out of bounds.
2006-06-21 16:30:04 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Another thing that bothers me about the deaths, is that those two soldiers probably enlisted 'after' 9/11, believing their president's representations that Iraq was a necessary target for war, and they went to war under the belief they were fighting for the survival of our country, etc, when....well, it's not a popular opinion with all, but let's say it's deeply argumentive that their destiny was at all a service to the country. Their intentions were honorable, but the deaths of all 2500 soldiers so far seems such a miscarriage of judgment and justice.
2006-06-21 17:32:44 · answer #3 · answered by nothing 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is a huge difference between jailing, and interogation vs mutilation, and beheading.
The US coalition treats their prisoners much differently than Al-Qaeda.
Remember terrorist countries, and organizations are under a completely different set of rules.
Can the US do better in regards to treatment yes. But overall they are performing well. Especially compared to those they face.
How many people have been beheaded in Gitmo? How many have been beheaded in Iraq?
Personally I have been impressed with how the Americans have handled themselves. Consider the attrrocieties during the earlier world wars. Now imagine our media back then? Overall I think the US is doing just fine.
2006-06-21 16:18:29 · answer #4 · answered by CSpiritt 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What funny sites are you going to, we don't torture. (Maybe once or twice but punishment is swift) Just because someone female soldier showed a butt head a little ankle or breast that's not torture. Maybe he couldn't handle and got a climax now we made him ashamed. That's so sad. We won't let someone get their 12 hours rest that's torture. We show them a mean looking dog. Did it bite Hell no. We do not sanction torture. Aggressive interviews yes lives depend on it. If fact our restraint hurts us.
2006-06-21 19:22:35 · answer #5 · answered by retired_afmil 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Stop being so ******* smug because you really don't care and feel sorry for the families of those soldiers that were murdered.We don't brutalize prisoners like that and if we don't follow the Geneva Convention, we do prosecute our own.Al-Qaeda never follows the rules of war beacuse human life is cheap to them.
2006-06-21 21:47:30 · answer #6 · answered by bulldog 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We can still be outraged because all of the things our government does are not necessarily representative of the American people. We are not defined by our government. We should be outraged at our government AND the insurgent activity in Iraq.
2006-06-21 16:12:53 · answer #7 · answered by seek_out_truth 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What??? The USA does NOT sanction torture nor has it ever done so .I would like you to show proof of this - you can't - So quit making crap up.
2006-06-21 16:29:55 · answer #8 · answered by bereal1 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There's a difference between sleep/food deprivation and taking someones intestines out while they watch a stray dog eat at them. Big Difference.
2006-06-21 16:13:32 · answer #9 · answered by 666K9 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Our soldiers remember what they are fighting for. We should do the same. We may not all agree with the government but they (soldiers ) chose to fight for us. Remember to keep them in your prayers. Other than that I have to say that I agree with Julia!
2006-06-21 19:18:35 · answer #10 · answered by SL 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋