CAN YOU IMAGINE? still today in the American Empire a vote such as this?
CNN QuickVote
Are there circumstances in which waterboarding of prisoners is acceptable?
Yes 55% 46074
Are there circumstances in which waterboarding of prisoners is acceptable?
Yes 55% 46074
No 45% 37437
Total Votes: 83511
monkey said:
This whole tape thing is driving me crazy.
So, lemme pose a hypothetical scenario.
Say one of our troops is captured in Iraq, and since many deem our forces to be "invaders" and have wrought terror upon many, they decide to waterboard or use some other "enhanced technique" to get that person to speak.
Say they videotape it. Say they release it and it hits the airwaves in America.
What would the reaction of the public be?
I'm guessing absolute hysterics, with people calling on the government to bomb the Middle East into oblivion, describing "those people" as animals, barbaric, sub-human, and worse, accusing "their God" of telling them to kill others in the name of religion, when all the while the ones directing these "safety measures" from the American side are also claiming that "they get their direction from a Higher power", one supposedly entrenched in the ideology love & peace.
Why the hell can't people see that what is being done in OUR name, under the thinly velied guise of "keeping us safe" is creating more and more animosity and enemies who will, without a doubt, continue to haunt us for these actions for generations to come?!?!?!
Maybe if George W. Bush is so interested in finding out what the true facts are, and his so-called "lawful enhanced techniques" are so bloody effective, just maybe he should waterboard some folks at the CIA, or in his own Cabinet, or his VP, or even himself.
Perhaps God will come to him at night and convince him to come clean on what he knows, or for that matter, what he doesn't.
This whole tape thing is driving me crazy.
So, lemme pose a hypothetical scenario.
Say one of our troops is captured in Iraq, and since many deem our forces to be "invaders" and have wrought terror upon many, they decide to waterboard or use some other "enhanced technique" to get that person to speak.
Say they videotape it. Say they release it and it hits the airwaves in America.
What would the reaction of the public be?
I'm guessing absolute hysterics, with people calling on the government to bomb the Middle East into oblivion, describing "those people" as animals, barbaric, sub-human, and worse, accusing "their God" of telling them to kill others in the name of religion, when all the while the ones directing these "safety measures" from the American side are also claiming that "they get their direction from a Higher power", one supposedly entrenched in the ideology love & peace.
Why the hell can't people see that what is being done in OUR name, under the thinly velied guise of "keeping us safe" is creating more and more animosity and enemies who will, without a doubt, continue to haunt us for these actions for generations to come?!?!?!
Maybe if George W. Bush is so interested in finding out what the true facts are, and his so-called "lawful enhanced techniques" are so bloody effective, just maybe he should waterboard some folks at the CIA, or in his own Cabinet, or his VP, or even himself.
Perhaps God will come to him at night and convince him to come clean on what he knows, or for that matter, what he doesn't.
Kangaroo Said:
Sadly, Monkey Georgie and this Adminstation, and I think most of the American People do think of America as and Empire, even though Christy said that they don't, I think that it will take another 9/11 for America, and the majority of the American People to understand the damage they have committed on the world community, You had the world community with you after 9/11, I think if a thing like that where to happen today, American would be standing very much alone.
posted by Kangaroo Brisbane Australia at 3:11 PM
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