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Originally Posted by Txjake
wow, you sound kind of shrill: you don't know me and yet you insult my intellect because I disagree with you. 
I did not hear that interview, but, in general, Fresh Air is a puff piece show, as are most NPR events, news crafted to fit the message they want to convey. Regarding the interviewee, one can always find somebody who was on the inside with an axe to grind who will purport that we are doing everything wrong...usually it is sour grapes because they are no longer on the inside...
regarding Abu Gharib, your point is moot: even if what we wanted to do was bash your skull in after a month there doesn't mean that you were torturing us, just that you pissed us off. actually, if you let me pick the ten guys, it might be kind of fun to see what your best effort would be: I am getting kind of old, but who knows....
Look, the point is, I have been through SERE at Ft Bragg, and the stuff we did at Abu Gharib is no worse than what we do to our own troops. Hell, what I saw on the news about AG, is no worse than college fraternity initiation.. 
By the way, I don't listen to Hannity........I do listen to NPR, if for no other reason that the entertainment value of hearing all the little leftists frantically trying to denouce everything regarding GWOT.... |
I sound shrill?! I know enough about your intellect from your lame attempt to conflate Teri Gross and Jerry Springer to conclude that you haven't the barest clue about either show or probably much of anything else.
Springer runs a freak show, where Ginny Sue gets in a lather cuzzin' Billy Bob was a diddlin' her cousin whilst she was in the horspital cuzzin' Billy Bob done knocked her up whilst she was still recoverin' from the broken hip she got fightin' off Billy Bob's daddy. And of course Ginny Sue tries to whop her cousin with all 270 pounds of her fightin' self.
Gross interviews people who have some stature in the world. There is absolutely no comparison. I'm guessing the comparison you made sounded cute when Rush or Savage pulled it out.
If I had a choice, I'd prefer an 'Abu Gharibing' to having my fingernails pulled out and tougue cut off, I'll grant you. Still, in a country like Iraq, it comes real close to pyschological torture -- one thing is clear, it is not going to help with any heart-felt cooperation from any Iraqi or Arab with US forces.
Any college fraternity dick tried to do that to me, I'd bust him hard and live in the dormitory. Lessee, have you ever had a large G. Shepherd type dog bark and snarl inches away from your family equipment, you with your hands and ankles shackled such that you had to squeeze your jewels tween your legs in hopes the dog wouldn't make a quick snack of them? Give me a break.
When you got the training at Ft. Bragg, you could be well assured that no permanent harm was going to befall you. The dumb savages we torment have no such assurance.