Do you think that Dubya will stop talking about Saddam’s “torture rooms” now, or continue using it and invite comparisons?
3 comments
You may also like
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
The Washington Post has some blunt words today about this policy: Unhappy Anniversary Sunday, November 30, 2003; Page B06 TODAY MARKS a dubious milestone: the 10th birthday of the military’s noxious [more...]
November 30, 2003
Greek to me
Looks like our friends at the PTC are digging into the past for their latest attack: the Olympics. The delightfully snarky Lisa de Moraes says: In response to one or more indecency complaints, the Federal Communications [more...]
December 11, 2004
Knot nearly tied
Hey, gang! The Canadian Senate has approved legislation to give same-sex couples the right to marry. All that remains now is for the bill to receive “royal assent” by the Governor General’s signature [more...]
July 20, 2005
Well, for right or wrong, there is a BIG difference between his torture rooms and ours.
Poor comparison on the grand scheme of things.
I can think of two differences: the scale of the abuse and the fact that our people will be punished (hopefully with more than a “reprimand”).
What other differences can you find?
The shear number of those killed and the methods used. The methods our gi’s are accused of are like fraternity hazing pranks compared to Saddam’s.
..not that it makes it ok for what we (i.e. a very few) were doing.
There is one thing that no one seems to be talking about, but as prisoners these guys may have had some info that we needed. There is one common theme about most of these pictures, there is a female either in the picture itself or in the presence of the prisoners. This is important, the one sure way to break down a militant, fundamentalist muslim male is to have him humiliated by a female.
…and if that is going to save the lives of a few of our guys, well then all I have to say is “pass the burlap sack.”
But that’s just a theory of mine, nothing to back it up.
If that is the case however, how much you wanna bet there’s a few enlisted men that’ll be hung out to dry because they chose to followe the orders of higher-ranking officers that’ll get off scott free. Rob Riener, are you listening?