Dan K. Thomasson: The price we pay

"Your made up scenario advocating rape to protect the pretend lives of 12 soldiers has no effect on me. If soldiers were to die because information was unobtainable by legitimate means then it would have been out of my hands and of no fault of my own."

To: caisson71
I don't play fair in combat either.
This isn't about fair play.
If it's ok to threaten to kill a prisoner for information would it be ok to rape his wife to make him talk? I know you wouldn't agree with that because it crosses the line. The line for this scenario was drawn long before LTC West even imagined being in the Army. LTC West crossed it, he knew he crossed it and now it's time to pay the piper.

13 posted on 12/09/2003 11:15:46 AM PST by Ispy4u

Who was it that introduced raping someone's wife as a means of making them talk? Looks like it was you. Seems to me an odd technique. If I were to "advocate" anything, it would be Col. West's methods rather than the rape tactic you have devised.

As for your precious "legitimate means," that's the problem rule book wavers like you can't seem to grasp. Our enemies view all means as legitimate and if we do not do the same, we are at a disadvantage. How many of the attacks on U.S. forces since the war ended and the occupation began may have been thwarted by threatening and intimidating captured enemies? How many dead and wounded have paid for your precious rules that no one we ever go to war with will ever respect? Our enemies laugh at you and your rules and use them against us.

"Don't try to place your sick answer back on me."

To: caisson71
I don't play fair in combat either.
This isn't about fair play.
If it's ok to threaten to kill a prisoner for information would it be ok to rape his wife to make him talk? I know you wouldn't agree with that because it crosses the line. The line for this scenario was drawn long before LTC West even imagined being in the Army. LTC West crossed it, he knew he crossed it and now it's time to pay the piper.
13 posted on 12/09/2003 11:15:46 AM PST by Ispy4u

I have to refresh your memory as to who introduced the theory of raping a guys wife to make him talk every darn day!

"You are the one who answered "wouldn't it" and then posed a scenario where you believe it would be ok to rape someone for information."

That's right, I'd do just about anything to save the life of one of my fellow American's. I can't think of a darn thing I wouldn't do! Too bad you place more importance on rulebooks than American lives.

"You are not only a sick individual you are also an intellectual midget."

So now you resort to name calling/personal attacks, which tells me all I need to know about the size of your intellect.

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