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In reply to the discussion: We're fucked for the foreseeable future... [View all]upaloopa
(11,417 posts)4. America is not a torture report. America is much more.
To me America is that long stretch of beach I walk down. It is the friends I have that have something in common with me. It is the HOA that I was treasurer of. It's the people who live in my neighborhood. It's my co workers and it is the good we do for the poor and mentally I'll who need our programs.
Americans may agree with torture or hate it as we do but we are not torturers. They did not act in our name.
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Not to mention many of the Khmer Rouge received light sentences for their atrocities
derby378
Dec 2014
#2
People here forget that Pol Pot was considered the USA's dear and trusted ally!
truedelphi
Dec 2014
#9
With prosecutions we can secure America's future. This is an opportunity for Dems to crush the R's
grahamhgreen
Dec 2014
#6
Why didn't we pardon the Nazis at Nuremberg? Why aren't we pardoning them now?
nichomachus
Dec 2014
#8
I will be 67 next month. I thought the US would have overcome the racism I got beat for protesting.
LiberalArkie
Dec 2014
#15
I sure as hell hope Obama and the rest of the Democrats who have been kid gloving this shit do not
Bluenorthwest
Dec 2014
#22