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Originally posted by Not Me
Sidd, it is about getting a sense of perspective here. You call humiliation torture. That is ridiculous.
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No, you stupid fucking twit. The United States calls humiliation -- the infliction of severe mental distress -- torture.
And you continue to ignore report after report, photo after photo, that prove beyond any question that "humiliation" was only the beginning. American soldiers beat wounded prisoners on their wounds. American soldiers tortured prisoner until they died. American soldiers beat prisoners unconscious. American soldiers tied prisoners in "stress positions" in order to cause pain (this, by the way, is the exact kind of torture that the North Vietnamese practiced on American POWs, that so -- correctly -- outraged Americans).
If you want to say that this was necessary to fight this war, fine. You are wrong, and your own Administration has disowned that argument -- they say that these were crimes, and they intend to prosecute the so-called rogues who committed those crimes (presumably until they find that the rogues are too high up in the military and civilian chain of command).
But your continued rejection of a fact that has is beyond dispute, and your continued insistence that the acts were limited to "humiliation" (which, again, is specifically prohibited by the Geneva Convention that the US has admitted applies to these prisoners) reflects only your inability to confront the truth.
But go ahead -- keep denying reality. I'm sure that will make the evidence* vanish.
*That is, the evidence that the Repubs don't succeed in withholding from the public view. I agree, doing that will facilitate your denial.
