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Originally posted by Not Me
So what?
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You are right. It is all pure coincidence:
-- the place where the torture occurred is where the high-intelligence value prisoners happened to be;
-- it is also where the intelligence officers and mercs (the same ones who applied these same techniques in Afghanistan) happened to be;
-- those intelligence officers and mercs just happened to be present for the interrogations (as shown by the photos);
-- all of the dozens of people captured in all of these photos were "dumb-asses" and thought that posing for something that they knew to be a crime (based on the training they received on the GC -- training they indisputably did not receive, despite your speculation to the contrary);
-- these hillbillies applied torture techniques that they remembered from the training THAT YOU SPECULATE they received on what might happened to them if they were made POWs --- because, of course, it is extremely likely that prison guards transferred into Iraq four months after the end of major combat operations might be made POWs, and therefore would receive training on the subject;
-- there were no reports of such torture in the 1991 Gulf War because, um, digital cameras hadn't been invented, and therefore it was impossible for soldiers to talk about the events (as they have about the torture at Abu Ghraib), or for videos to be taken (as they were here), for the Red Cross to report on it (as occurred here)
Yup. It's all coincidence. And everyone who thinks to the contrary is just another anti-American hatemonger.
