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2009-03-17 Terror Networks

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-03-17 12:53|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 How many truck loads of salt is the ICRC worth?

Posted by AlanC 2009-03-17 13:08|| 2009-03-17 13:08|| Front Page Top

#2 Proof of this torture is that the prisoners said so, right? (Though I suspect it has at least some amount of truth to it, I still don't really care much, or think it should be hauled out in public.)

Posted by Glenmore 2009-03-17 13:11|| 2009-03-17 13:11|| Front Page Top

#3 ...and if ya can't trust Guantanamo detainees, who can you trust?

Posted by tu3031 2009-03-17 13:40|| 2009-03-17 13:40|| Front Page Top

#4 The fact that they're still breathing is proof positive that we didn't torture them enough. The fact that NONE of the Saudi royal family are imprisoned at Guantanamo is the major reason I can say we're not really committed to the "GWOT".

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2009-03-17 14:33|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2009-03-17 14:33|| Front Page Top

#5 The problem is that lawyers are continously trying to expand the definition of "torture". If you look at the way German prisoners were treated by the US and British Armies during WWII, you'll see the Al Qaeda prisoners are treated considerably better.

If you compare the way IRA prisoners were interogated by the British Army, Al Qaeda prisoners are treated no worse (and usually better) than IRA prisoners.

The leftists expand the word "torture" to mean anything from using an iron maiden to handling a Koran without gloves. Then they imply everyone
"tortured" was given an acid bath.

The more attention we pay to these idiots, the weaker we seem, and the dumber we seem.

Posted by Frozen Al 2009-03-17 15:52|| 2009-03-17 15:52|| Front Page Top

#6 Ask John McCain, and his fellow inmates at the Hanoi Hilton and other North Vietnamese garden spots, what real torture is like. Ask Senator McCain to raise his hands above his head. Oh, yeah. He isn't able to, because of torture.
If he were still alive, you could ask Admiral James Stockdale, Medal of Honor recipient. He could barely walk or stand upright when he was released.
Those guys were tortured, along with many of the other POWs in VietNam and Korea. And they were true POWs under the Geneva Convention - captured in uniform while serving under the control of a controlling authority.
On the other hand, the "mistreatment" of the Gitmo Gang is like playschool. They get fed three religiously sensitive meals a day, along with exercise, prayer support, all kinds of goodies.
I have said before many times, that we should really enforce the Geneva Convention - if they are captured out of uniform, and not under the control of a national authority, they should be given a drumhead court martial. If found guilty, they should be shot. If we ask them a few forceful questions while waiting to execute them, so what. Only POWs are protected by only having to give their name, rank and serial number.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia">Rambler in Virginia 2009-03-17 17:28|| 2009-03-17 17:28|| Front Page Top

#7
ICRC ought to stick to distributing care packages. Filed under the UN and other useless organizations who do useless and biased studies.

Posted by JohnQC 2009-03-17 19:00|| 2009-03-17 19:00|| Front Page Top

#8 "T" = THEODORE? TEDDY [Bear]?

Gut Nuthin.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2009-03-17 19:55|| 2009-03-17 19:55|| Front Page Top

#9 The problem is that lawyers are continuously trying to expand the definition of "torture".

How many frat boys died since 9/11 in 'initiations'? Yet it still goes on [regardless of the claims of the esteemed academics that they are suppressing the tradition].

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-03-17 23:22|| 2009-03-17 23:22|| Front Page Top

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