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Originally posted by Mike AI@Dec 7 2004, 08:51 PM
PD don't you see, if we were LIKE THEM, the war would be over. We would eliminate the entire region from the planet. This is what they want to do to us. IF we were like them, we would just cut their heads off and put it on TV. We have enough in Guantanmo to make a Reality TV show out of it!!
We are different from them. We fight by rules that we choose to place on ourselves which are stricter then anything they afford our soldiers and civlians.
If you cannot see the difference between THEM and US, maybe its because you looking from the THEM side a little to much.
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Mike ... if American troops catch someone beside a road placing an IED, I hope (and suspect) they are not bothering to take prisoners.
If American intelligence assets discover a center for the manufacture of car bombs, I hope (and suspect) that the end result is an inventory of body parts, not prisoners.
I don't like the idea of abusing the prisoners. I do believe in American values - and that includes innocence until proven guilty by somebody other than the folks that apprehended them.
But far more chilling to me than the arbitrary arguements about what constitutes abuse, and what is appropriate under what treaty, is the allegation that the Special Forces are threatening people who have witnessed alleged incidents of abuse. Maybe that's okay with you, but it sure as hell isn't with me.
And ... I realize that you are one of the narrow minded bigots that cannot possible understand that someone who disagrees with you can be as concerned about this country as you are - so the allegation that I am looking at it from "their" side is no suprise at all.
But tell me something, Mikey ... what do you think Ahab Ahab (picked up during a sweep while taking out the trash two blocks after an IED goes off two blocks away) is going to do when he is released from a prison 6 months from now, after enduring (or witnessing) that kinda treatment?
Can your closed mind wrap itself around the possibility that this shit could backfire on us?