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2008-05-11 Home Front: WoT

On Illegal Combatants and Torture: A Voice of Sanity

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Posted by Frank G 2008-05-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Amen.

Posted by wxjames 2008-05-11 00:40|| 2008-05-11 00:40|| Front Page Top

#2 Of course we are assuming that the honorable members of congress (and Speaker Pelosi) want America to win - and want to save American lives.

I have my doubts about that. Particularly if they feel they can gain an ounce of political power by not doing so.

Posted by CrazyFool 2008-05-11 02:13|| 2008-05-11 02:13|| Front Page Top

#3 Huh? Delta Camp methods have been both recreated by those affected, and admitted by the DoD. You can view an actual stream of the story - out of context - of 3 UK Muslims who were caught in Afghanistan in Oct. 2001, when Taliban/al-Qaeda was surrounded by US and Northern Alliance troops. See "The Road to Guantanamo" at this UK site:
http://freedocumentaries.org/

Crude interrogation prep was practised at "X-Ray Camp" at Gitmo, but developed techniques were utilized at Delta. Ops admitted to using this SOP (later revised):
http://www.scribd.com/doc/495141/Camp-Delta-Standard-Operating-Procedures

I have always advocated the summary execution of 100% of the foreign Muslims who were captured in Afghanistan. They all supported Taliban/al-Qaeda, and none deserved to live.

Posted by McZoid 2008-05-11 03:20|| 2008-05-11 03:20|| Front Page Top

#4 Outrage and denunciation [to include multi-week front page coverage by the NYT] of this pattern of American torture seems rather muted. Can't blame Bush?

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-05-11 12:01|| 2008-05-11 12:01|| Front Page Top

#5 Man when I was Pike we just watered down ketchup poured it the heads of the pledges while chanting 'menstrual stew, menstrual stew'.

Posted by Beavis 2008-05-11 12:10|| 2008-05-11 12:10|| Front Page Top

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