a year after, folks seem to have pretty much accepted torture as o.k.

[mopaul]

don't ya think? the big abu ghraib bru ha ha came and went, like so many other bushco scandals, all the sunday talks were discussing gitmo and if we should shut it and other torture houses down. even our 'own' diane feinstein couldn't quite decide definitively.

so it looks like most folks are just fine with the basic concept of torturing prisoners of war as just another routine military action, made necessary by nine eleven.

now, when inevitable videos of our own boys and girls in uniform being held captive and tortured and humiliated and forced to flush the bible and some sexual depravity thrown in finally surface, then, maybe, some folks might think a wee bit differently about torturing prisoners of war.

but don't you think it's disgusting that torture has now become just another quaint and archaic concept? hell, if you can accept genocide and illegal occupations, what's a little torture here and there?

[Skittles]

1. mopaul, if they aren't white people they don't give a damn

no indeed. Hell, lots of DUers find prison rape a joking matter. :(

[mopaul]

9. soon, slavery too will come back into acceptance

and already has in many forms. cheap, offshore labor, mexican migrant workers, minimum wage for the poor. but outright slavery of defeated enemies can't be far behind.

[area51]

2. torture

Yes, it certainly shows how far we've fallen as a society. How much difference is there between us & the German people accepting what Hitler did during WWII? </rhetorical>

[Hello_Kitty]

3. This is what I hear all the time

"But the people we're torturing are beheading Americans!" Yup, they're one and the same :eyes:

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

5. The actions of a few

justify atrocities against an entire group, according to this mindset. Of course, nothing like this was proposed against white Christians after the OK City bombing, which implies a certain amount of prejudice involved.

[mopaul]

6. yeah, they're all a bunch of beheaders and barbarians

bush always points out in his war speeches the beheaders, the killers, the barbarians, the torture rooms under saddam, that's just stuff that 'the enemy' does. we are above all that, we are CIVILIZED.

[B Calm]

7. I've been told since the terrorists behead us when they capture us,

then its ok to torture them.. From what I been hearing many of these so called terrorists were bought with our tax dollars and are nothing more than inoncent farmers, taxi cab drivers, etc etc..

[LightningFlash]

4. Of course they need to be tortured!

Give me a freaking break, this is just pathetic what is being allowed. :eyes: :mad: :banghead:

Half or more of these "prisoners of war" have no idea even what happened with 9/11, are not related to some "covert CIA" terrorist group, and sure as hell don't want anything to do with american fundamentalists!

Nobody pays attention to the fact that, it was all a setup anyway. A bunch of bullcrap lies where someone "ALLOWED" a disaster to happen to justify a war....

War on terror is war on oil and religion....Just another pathetic mistake in US history. :mad:

This is plain sick and revolting....I say hit all the media with the torture, make them see what kind of practices we in america allow.

http://www.rumormillnews.com/MEDIA_EMAIL_ADDRESSES.htm

[jus_the_facts]

8. They aren't paying ATTENTION to any of it.........

...they're more concerned with entertainment news as that's what's more important because that's what the media reports on the most. They couldn't care less about the torture of others....but time is growin' short for them as they're the ones in line for it to begin happening to THEM soon...very soon. :nopity:

[Karenina]

10. BINGO!!!