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rhett o rick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-17-09 11:01 AM Original message |
Why isn’t anyone talking about the people that tortured people to death? |
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HereSince1628 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-17-09 11:05 AM Response to Original message |
1. Sshhhh! You'll disturb the sound of silence. n/t |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-17-09 11:06 AM Response to Original message |
2. We are NOT a country of laws, we are an empire |
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NYCGirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-17-09 11:06 AM Response to Original message |
3. I believe that's called murder and it's prosecutable. |
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Bluerthanblue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-17-09 11:12 AM Response to Reply #3 |
5. excellent point- |
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rhett o rick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-17-09 12:40 PM Response to Reply #3 |
7. Exactly, noone is speaking of the deaths by torture. nm |
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polmaven (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-17-09 02:20 PM Response to Reply #3 |
11. It has already been pointed out |
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jberryhill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-17-09 05:41 PM Response to Reply #3 |
23. Ummmm... take a look at this federal law - to be clear |
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Duende azul (608 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-17-09 06:45 PM Response to Reply #3 |
34. No. Only a - surely lamentable - tragic, accident, happening to brave people serving the nation. |
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riverwalker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-17-09 11:09 AM Response to Original message |
4. and the medical people |
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rhett o rick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-17-09 01:21 PM Response to Reply #4 |
8. I agree. nm |
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wurzel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-17-09 11:20 AM Response to Original message |
6. According to a Raw Story article, kids were tortured with insects? |
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Bluerthanblue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-17-09 01:37 PM Response to Reply #6 |
9. can you link the article? |
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rhett o rick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-17-09 02:08 PM Response to Reply #9 |
10. I think you will find it at rawstory.com on the front page. nm |
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Bluerthanblue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-17-09 02:48 PM Response to Reply #10 |
12. Thank YOU! I |
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rhett o rick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-17-09 02:55 PM Response to Reply #12 |
15. I appreciate your interest. nm |
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Echo In Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-17-09 02:58 PM Response to Reply #6 |
17. Seymour Hersh says there's video of children being sodomized @Abu Ghraib |
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tekisui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-17-09 03:02 PM Response to Reply #6 |
18. 'Kiddie torture'. |
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whathehell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-17-09 07:25 PM Response to Reply #18 |
36. OMG...I'd heard about the sodomy...but not the forced incest.. |
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tekisui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-18-09 06:52 AM Response to Reply #36 |
38. I don't have a link, right off hand. |
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L0oniX (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-17-09 02:49 PM Response to Original message |
13. Everyone would torture given the right circumstances. |
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gratuitous (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-17-09 02:52 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. I don't know about "everyone" |
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rhett o rick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-17-09 03:35 PM Response to Reply #13 |
20. How does that apply here. Are you saying these torturers didn't know right from wrong? |
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L0oniX (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-17-09 04:11 PM Response to Reply #20 |
21. As I understand it, they can refuse to comply if what they are being ordered to do goes... |
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rhett o rick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-17-09 05:44 PM Response to Reply #21 |
25. I am saying that all half way intellegent Americans know what torture is. You don't need a memo |
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spanone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-17-09 02:55 PM Response to Original message |
16. in a true nation of laws, i'd think prosecution of known criminal acts wouldn't be a choice |
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MrCoffee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-17-09 03:21 PM Response to Original message |
19. The law is on their side |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-17-09 05:55 PM Response to Reply #19 |
28. If the law was on their side, BushCo wouldn't have mustered to put those |
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hootinholler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-17-09 04:20 PM Response to Original message |
22. You mean this guy? |
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jberryhill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-17-09 05:42 PM Response to Original message |
24. I think this might have something to do with it |
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nichomachus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-17-09 05:52 PM Response to Original message |
26. Oh, look, a puppy -- isn't he cute . . . . |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-17-09 05:54 PM Response to Original message |
27. I did yesterday and was told I hated our "service people" |
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rhett o rick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-17-09 06:17 PM Response to Reply #27 |
29. It's not clear who did the actual torturing. Was it contracted out? Did Blackwater? |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-17-09 06:27 PM Response to Reply #29 |
31. From the reading I've done, it was CIA personnel assisted by |
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stillcool (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-17-09 06:17 PM Response to Original message |
30. The CIA has been torturing/killing.. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-17-09 06:29 PM Response to Reply #30 |
32. Yes, the Pentagon was in it up to their eyeballs. My best evidence is |
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stillcool (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-17-09 06:50 PM Response to Reply #32 |
35. Wasn't the FBI involved with.. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-18-09 01:32 AM Response to Reply #35 |
37. At the beginning. When the torture started, they bailed. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-17-09 06:30 PM Response to Reply #30 |
33. Dupe. |
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rhett o rick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-18-09 10:32 PM Response to Reply #30 |
39. haven't contractors been involved? Blackwater (now Xe)?? nm |
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