Are they indifferent?
Are the morally outraged?
Was it justifyable?
Was it characteristic of the Bush Administration's style of foreign policy?
Any and all real answers will be listened to.
2007-06-13 04:55:34 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
I don't consider what was done "torture"
2007-06-13 04:58:24 · answer #1 · answered by baby1 5 · 4⤊ 5⤋
The same as everyone else does, including the US government. The military brought the incidents to light and tried, convicted and jailed those involved.
What more do you want?
It's not indicative of American policy, and any real question would have to acknowledge that. Again, it is considered criminal - which is the best indication of the Bush administrations' opposition to what happened as one would ever find.
PS I find it interesting how accusations that this is somehow approved policy, in light of what I've outlined, are still made, and yet some people become offended when their patriotism is questioned for making such unfounded accusations.
To be honest, the question offends me, at least as much as any comment about the patriotism of leftists offends them.
2007-06-13 12:05:24 · answer #2 · answered by American citizen and taxpayer 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
If that was torture many of your Liberal College Fraternities are in trouble....I actually thought it was kind of funny...********* them naked and making fun of their penises...wow that is torture...having to look at Ali's junk...I guess beheading is just having fun right? Abu Ghraib was nothing more than pranks that the Liberal Media ran with and railroaded those soldiers...it wasn't with in regulations, but it was funny...but they went to far with making them lay on top of each other....that PFC female must have been a Lesbian...well she looked like one at least...
2007-06-13 12:20:53 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The U.S. has always held the moral high-ground. Abu-Ghraib has shown the world that we are no better than those we are fighting. We will have to work long and hard to get back the respect that we lost because of this incident.
2007-06-13 12:03:42 · answer #4 · answered by diogenese_97 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Most things I saw in Abu Ghraib are no worse than what happens at hazing for our own soldiers or in a fraternity. Also when you have that many soldiers do you think that every one of them is perfect and maybe doesn't act on their own to do horrible things. We have great police department around this country but there are police who are brutal and do illegal things. During WWII we obviously were in the right in our response to the Nazis but some of our soldiers did evil things to German soldiers and citizens that did not mean FDR was evil or responsible for those actions.
2007-06-13 12:02:47 · answer #5 · answered by ALASPADA 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I think a few low ranking officers took some very disturbing actions but they were the only ones responsible. I was outraged that people wearing the uniform of the US could act in that manner. Bush had absolutely nothing to do with what went on there.
2007-06-13 12:01:07 · answer #6 · answered by gerafalop 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Define TORTURE....does what happenned there qualify?? A Lady G.I. with a cigarette in her mouth while pointing at a naked prisoner's "hoo-hah" and giving the thumbs up for a photograph????? It may be psychologically abrassive, but TORTURE???? I don't think it qualified, personally. But I also think whoever got the bright idea to take pictures of it was a moron.
How do you compare THAT to the threat of a possible beheading by the opposition???
Groups like Amnesty International, while serving a good purpose, need to get their heads out of their a*s*s*e*s on certain issues.
2007-06-13 12:02:41 · answer #7 · answered by bradxschuman 6 · 0⤊ 4⤋
They think its fine. They listen to Rush Limbaugh so they think Iraq was the attacker on 9-11 and even if its just a harmless ordinary citizen of Iraq who had the misfortune to get arrested (just like Saddam Hussein used to do) they think its fine to torture them. Remember in the first Republican debates this year how the audience, all Republicans, cheered for torture? Believe me, its OK with them, they like it. They never could imagine in a million years that torturing people in their own country will produce people who hate us enough to become terrorists.
To those who don't consider having your genitals zapped with electric shocks, would you consider it torture if it were done to you or your most beloved person? THINK for God's sake!
2007-06-13 12:00:27 · answer #8 · answered by jxt299 7 · 3⤊ 3⤋
Well, Rush the Junkie said it was just blowing off steam, fraternity-boy hijinks. No big deal. People like him can't grasp the notion that it's not smart to ruin our standing in the eyes of the rest of the world. NO, we're the Big Bad USA and we can do whatever we want! That is the Neanderthal Right sentiment.
2007-06-13 12:00:05 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 4⤋
This conservative find it disgusting.
It was not justifyable.
It is characteristic of a neo-con foreign policy.
2007-06-13 11:58:35 · answer #10 · answered by Layne B 3 · 4⤊ 2⤋
Embarrassed, I'm sure.
Edit:
Embarrassed AND defensive, it seems.
2007-06-13 11:58:52 · answer #11 · answered by Alowishus B 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋