Reply #52: What do you mean Bush disagrees

[KerryOn]

... with me?

Go back and read my posts.
I never said that I approved of torture.
I never said that it was right to torture.

One last time --- "There can not be any rules in war." What are they going to do call the war police? The thought of rules is stupid. I think everyone misunderstood my original post.

Lets look at his another way.

Recently there have been several cases where American service men are being tried for murder, because they killed a wounded insurgent. I have a big problem with that. Isn't that what they are suppose to do? Send a young man to war to kill people, and then put him on trial for murder?

You got to put yourself in that eighteen year olds position.
First off you are scared to death, and any soldier that tells you other wise is lying. The first person you look out for is yourself. Not your buddy, and not your country. You look out for number one first, then your buddies, and you do anything you have to do to stay alive. You become an animal and fight for your survival. You learn very quickly not to stick your neck out and take unnecessary chances. There could be a chance that that soldier is playing dead, and at any moment he could roll over and blast you in two, or detonate an explosive device. You don't wait, you make a split second decision, to insure that you survive and you kill him before he has the slightest chance to do the same to you.

Then what do you do when that little child comes walking to-wards you? Does that little child have a satchel charge on him? How do you know? How can you tell? What would YOU do?

That is the reality of war, and it is not pretty, like it or not.

Torture is not humane, and neither is war.

Again don't read anything into my posts that are not there. I do not support torture as it has happen in THIS war.

There are no rules in war and there can be no rules. If someone writes rules on piece of paper what good are they?