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Torturing SOB's
On 12/10/14 2:10 PM, Toad Gig wrote:
On Wed, 10 Dec 2014 13:52:05 -0500, Keyser Söze wrote: On 12/10/14 1:14 PM, Boating All Out wrote: In article , says... That's the problem with people like BOA. He selectively ignores some things if it doesn't serve his argument. The trouble with "people like Luddite" is they can't help dragging partisan politics into a subject titled "Torturing SOB's." There is plenty of debate going on about the release of this report and it's not limited to the right-leaning media outlets. Even MSNBC has raised some questions regarding the motivations of Feinstien and her committee. The committee never bothered interviewing any of the people who were actually involved in the interrogation program as research for the report. It started as a conclusion which then had to be justified with selectively chosen accusations and facts. You are correct. Many of the same people were chastising the CIA for not doing enough shortly after 9/11. Finger pointing and evading responsibility. That's all. You just evade the point of my post, which is that U.S. Government engaged in widespread torture. Maybe you don't believe it happened. Or maybe you think it's okay. But you want to get into political ****-slinging. I don't. Sorry about that. You can argue politics with Scotty. Go right ahead. We used to be able to claim the high moral ground because even in warfare, we supposedly did not engage in war-making on civilians to the extent our "enemies" did. World War II put that claim to death, of course, with our massive bombings of mostly civilian parts of cities in Germany and Japan, and the horrors we perpetrated on Vietnamese civilians. Yeah, we should have left Hitler and Tojo just have their way. What a f'ing joke, Toad. As usual, you just don't get the point. The point is, if your enemy engages in war against non-combatant civilians and you do, too, then you've lost your claim to the high moral ground. That the Japanese and the Germans killed millions of innocent people didn't make it "ok" for us to firebomb civilian areas. Operation Meetinghouse, for example, supposedly killed more than 100,000 civilian Japanese, and many believe the death toll was much higher. -- I feel no need to explain my politics to stupid right-wingers. After all, I am *not* the Jackass Whisperer. |
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