Re: a dumb query? pls humor me
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On 04/02/07 16:26, Steve Lamb wrote:
> judd@wadsworth.org wrote:
>> Since some of the al-Qaeda and taliban prisoner's were in fact denied
>> their GC protections, by being tortured, mistreated, etc., it's pretty
>> obvious that the "QCs don't apply" provision was the operational part
>> of this order, and not "taken out of context quite badly". It's more
>> reasonable to conclude that the other language was included as
>> whitewash.
>
> Tell you what, if you honestly believe that then how about we just mirror
> what the other side is doing.
>
> Since we've already gone the torture route let's parade them in the media
> as denouncing how peaceful a religion it is they follow, explain how their
> homelands are festering cesspools of hatred and violence and then, after all
> of that, behead them, making sure to get a close-up of their faces as they
> drown in their own blood as it gushes from their jugular and down their
> throat. Both of those are against the GC as well.
>
> I find it not at all amusing that the people who routinely and publicly
> beheaded people are in turn hiding behind conventions they are not covered by,
> are not signatories to, and obviously do not follow themselves.
>
> The only thing worse than that are people like you who say nothing,
> absolutely nothing, about the inhumane nature their prisoners are treated and
> butchered yet squeal in their defense because of largely psychological and
> entirely non-lethal and non-crippling torture employed by this side. At the
> end of the day they're not maimed or murdered. They're scared (as in the case
> of waterboarding) or have their fragile sensibilities hurt (as in the case of
> the falsely reported Kuran flushing).
Reminds me a heck of a lot about the way Cold War socialists in the
First World bashed their own societies while ignoring the horrors
that went on behind the Iron Curtain and the way that the NVA and VC
treated peasants.
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day.
Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!
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