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Originally Posted by Yoda
You keep saying innocent civilians. Civilians yes. Innocent, not proven.
You changed to torture. If you must. I have read the great report on torture that was released the other day. I was shocked. I went through more than that in basic training. If that's all we were doing and calling it torture, I am disappointed. By all the talk over the years, I was sure that we were braking bones, sticking pins under fingernails or worse. Perhaps we should have been beheading captives as our "Peace loving" enemy does?
Just as a matter of comparison, when the British attacked the colonists during the revolution they were in fact attacking civilians. Do you think that they were all "innocent" civilians?
Bucco, obviously you don't like what is going on. Tell us, how would you prosecute this war?
Yoda
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I think we may agree YODA, although you feel a bit more strongly than I about the possible innocence of those killed in Afghanastan !
My problem has been reading the last few days about the released report and the shock shown, the righteous indignation shown about how we treated folks who have already killed, assisted in killing, etc. that were captured. Then hearing almost NO indignation about the killing by the US with drones. Not even reported much but we have specials on the treatment of prisoners.
Seems to me this is more political than real. I support both the drone attacks and also doing what is necessary to get information from folks who have a mission to kill my fellow americans.
How can you be so publicly outraged..so "embarassed" by our treatment of killers in captivity and so blase about killing possible innocent citizens ?