I'll answer your questions you posed earlier.
Re: averted earlier - It is quite obvious that your contempt for honorable soldiers runs deep, I'll be happy to inform you that, with the exception of a very few, every soldier in Iraq right now has onions that make LTC Wests look tiny. I won't even bother to explain to a rape advocate why.
Re: taking risk to protect men - Our soldiers will do the things it takes to do to protect their fellow soldiers, within the law, and their lawful orders. Rape advocates need not apply.
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. I would feel grief for the loss but no guilt because I stopped short of rape to get the info. You should seek help.
"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.