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In reply to the discussion: So we all know torture happened, yet if we hold people accountable hostages might be killed? [View all]KingCharlemagne
(7,908 posts)28. I wonder if they're stonewalling and obfuscating because they are
afraid the righteous fury of the American people, slow to awaken but once awoke unquenchable, will ignite.
If, for example, the report documents that American military personnel or intelligence assets (or mercenaries in the U.S. employ) were sodomizing Iraqi children in front of their parents in order to compel parents to inform on the Iraqi resistance, do you think that revelation might be enough to arouse the vast majority of working-class Americans from their moral torpor?
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So we all know torture happened, yet if we hold people accountable hostages might be killed? [View all]
ForgoTheConsequence
Dec 2014
OP
Delaying the release is not the same thing as never releasing it. The torture has stopped and Obama
okaawhatever
Dec 2014
#5
No, not nonsense. Reality. The fear is for Americans abroad and American hostages, plus the Iran
okaawhatever
Dec 2014
#7
You don't think those who were tortured already know it? Your logic is a major fail.
Scuba
Dec 2014
#8
Americans aren't ignorant of it. Obama has admitted it publicly. This report has been in the press
okaawhatever
Dec 2014
#10
To protect the guilty powerful and their underlings who actually performed the torture.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Dec 2014
#17
The leaders of the world never prosecute one another because they know one day it could and
liberal_at_heart
Dec 2014
#18
That is some seriously acerbic shit (but well put). I read somewhere back
KingCharlemagne
Dec 2014
#31