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yasmina27 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-22-09 07:35 PM Original message |
Obama should pardon and commute sentences |
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JuniperLea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-22-09 07:40 PM Response to Original message |
1. I don't know how I would have reacted in their place... |
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Jennicut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 12:50 AM Response to Reply #1 |
8. Mental manipulation is quite easy to do to others |
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JuniperLea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 11:15 AM Response to Reply #8 |
18. See, that's the thing... |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 02:31 AM Response to Reply #1 |
10. I think that's the only conscionable attitude that makes any moral sense. |
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dorkulon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 04:55 AM Response to Reply #10 |
12. The way I see it, either those "just following orders" are guilty or not, whether Americans or Nazis |
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JuniperLea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 11:19 AM Response to Reply #12 |
20. I hate to say this... |
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JuniperLea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 11:17 AM Response to Reply #10 |
19. I shudder to think of the tactics they use |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 04:59 AM Response to Reply #1 |
14. you would not have been a Lynndie England |
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JuniperLea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 11:12 AM Response to Reply #14 |
17. You'd be right |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-22-09 07:45 PM Response to Original message |
2. No thanks. |
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denem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-22-09 07:46 PM Response to Original message |
3. They loved their work. |
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vaberella (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 12:08 AM Response to Reply #3 |
5. EXACTLY. I sympathised with Karpinski but I saw the pics. They loved what they did. |
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AtomicKitten (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 12:05 AM Response to Original message |
4. torture is illegal and ignorantia juris non excusat |
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vaberella (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 12:09 AM Response to Original message |
6. I listened to her with half an ear. Her people took pleasure in such an inhumane act. |
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Jennicut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 12:49 AM Response to Original message |
7. She should have been punished but the higher ups got away with all of it. |
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Politicalboi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 01:20 AM Response to Original message |
9. Yes times are different |
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dorkulon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 04:47 AM Response to Original message |
11. Nothing is different. |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 04:58 AM Response to Original message |
13. he should not. |
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Hanse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 05:38 AM Response to Original message |
15. Is this a fucking joke? |
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yasmina27 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 07:11 PM Response to Reply #15 |
22. no |
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ejpoeta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 06:10 AM Response to Original message |
16. i always believed that these people weren't just bad apples. i always |
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SeaLyons (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 11:42 AM Response to Original message |
21. The peons were victims of group-think and upbringing. |
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dorkulon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-24-09 01:01 AM Response to Reply #21 |
23. Were the Nazi soldiers "victims" too? |
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SeaLyons (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-24-09 11:16 AM Response to Reply #23 |
24. I think that's apples to oranges.... |
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dorkulon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-24-09 02:41 PM Response to Reply #24 |
25. In fact, the Nazis stood to die if they refused to follow orders. |
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