I am so glad I am no longer part of the military. I knew some of the people I served with were borderline demented but I could never imagine this. After reading the reporters’ accounts and realizing that, even after all this, these acts could still possibly be taking place just sickens me. To further realize that these actions are being perpetrated by “The Greatest Country In The World”, “The Saviors of Iraq” just makes me want to weep.
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It may be treasonousof the press, but remember: Saddam Hussein did much worse. So, it’s okay.
Moderator’s Note: This thread seems like more of a rant than a debate to me (hint: references to peoples thumbs being up their asses and shitting popsicles are a.) not really in keeping with the lofty tone we strive for in the Great Debates forum and b.) not really in keeping with the “descriptive thread titles” rule).
You forget one detail:
They were subhuman Non Western cooperatives of Reuters.
Why would one US soldier, indoctrinated by the US army to believe the US produces Super Heros and all the brownies - and especially those classified under Muslim- are sub- to nonhumans, believe one second these funny brown species had even the brains to know what Reuters is, let be the skill to apply for being hired by Reuters.
I really dislike this shifty, dishonest pretension that stress positions are not a form of torture. The main benefit of the method is that it leaves few telltale signs for others to see as evidence of torture. But it is in fact extremely painful. That military officers are coyly reffering to it as something mild that they do is disgusting precisely because they are almost certainly exploiting the very reason why “stress positions” are apparently so popular in the U.S. military today: because they don’t sound all that bad to the average layman.
I certtainly would not want my titles to fall short of the lofty GD standards, but I defy anyone to squeeze an adequate description of the atrocities at issue into the limited space provided, without resort to anlgo saxon shorthand…
Where were these Reuters guys arrested? Just out on the street? Or were they near a base perimeter or something like that? Not that that would excuse the soliders’ atrocious conduct, I’m just curious.
Oh well, that’s OK then. A closed investigation by the same military that is currently in deep shit due to abuse of prisoners found “no abuse of any kind”. Phew. Those bullshitting journalist fucks. Well they were only Arabs. Can’t trust any of them.