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In reply to the discussion: So we all know torture happened, yet if we hold people accountable hostages might be killed? [View all]Dragonfli
(10,622 posts)12. Why do you think "most countries" are torturing people?
I find it to be both shocking and bizarre that you make such an assumption.
Our criminal activity is widely known (Bush and co. made quite a splash) as indeed are the criminal antics of various tyrants in the world which in many cases are even worse, but I thought it was well established that civilized countries do not commit torture. Hence our moral imperative a few years back to stop doing so.
Why do you believe such a thing? Do you know any facts that I am simply unaware of? Or is this belief a defense mechanism meant to assuage the guilt you feel for supporting the continued sweeping under the rug of heinous acts and the sheltering of war criminals and torturers by telling yourself everybody is doing it?
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So we all know torture happened, yet if we hold people accountable hostages might be killed? [View all]
ForgoTheConsequence
Dec 2014
OP
Delaying the release is not the same thing as never releasing it. The torture has stopped and Obama
okaawhatever
Dec 2014
#5
No, not nonsense. Reality. The fear is for Americans abroad and American hostages, plus the Iran
okaawhatever
Dec 2014
#7
You don't think those who were tortured already know it? Your logic is a major fail.
Scuba
Dec 2014
#8
Americans aren't ignorant of it. Obama has admitted it publicly. This report has been in the press
okaawhatever
Dec 2014
#10
To protect the guilty powerful and their underlings who actually performed the torture.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Dec 2014
#17
The leaders of the world never prosecute one another because they know one day it could and
liberal_at_heart
Dec 2014
#18
That is some seriously acerbic shit (but well put). I read somewhere back
KingCharlemagne
Dec 2014
#31