Silence of the Rush haters

Washington Times ^ | 5/14/04 | L. Brent Bozell III

[Burkeman1]

Just "hazing" right? Would you put your friends penis in your mouth without the promise and practice of torture?

[Burkeman1]

So I guess these guys just "agreed" to "simulate" homosexual acts with each other? Kinda like "volunteers?" I guess they were not scared for their lives when these pictures were taken?

[Lancey Howard]

I guess if me and my buddies cheered the mass murder of 3,000 Americans and then aided and abetted in deadly ambushes and guerrilla warfare against American soldiers, I'd get what I had coming to me.

You can pity those Iraqi animals if you wish but personally, I don't care what happens to them. What bothers me more than anything is that photos and videos were allowed to be taken. This I find utterly incomprehensible. Officers need to be relieved of command and prosecuted for this incredibly damaging, malicious stupidity.

[gitmo]

Limbaugh disgraced himself. His "frat boy" jokes about the torture they came under are sick to all moral people.

Not at all. The media discraced itself by failing to look at the context. Rush made the statement on May 6. A caller said this looked a lot like a college fraternity hazing. Rush likened it to the Skull and Bones, since everyone has been making a big deal out of Bush belonging to S&B. (Turns out Kerry was, too.)

Rush said he wasn't justifying the Abu Grabe actions, but that these first pictures looked pretty tame. I agree. I saw a site the other day where they showed the Iraq pictures side by side with American fraternity hazing. The hazing was far worse. But Rush did say that Rumsfeld had told us there were worse pictures coming, and that they may not be in the same league.

[gitmo]

Rush never indicated they volunteered. Nor did he say the actions were justified. In fact, he went out of his way to state that he WASN'T justifying it. The point he was making was that the reaction of the press and the democRat party is not proportional. This wasn't torture, nor was it outside the bounds of the Geneva convention. It was on the scale of a fraternity hazing.

But you, apparently, are saying it was justified, and that the authorities in the US should treat American citizens that way????

[gitmo]

OK....so another person having trouble with moral equivalency.

Let's see.....having panties put over your head vs. getting it chopped off.

I think you're putting words in his keyboard. The comparison would not be chopping someones head off, but slowly sawing it off with a dull knife. And having to stop halfway through, and start sawing away from the back because the knife wouldn't cut all the way through from the throat.

[eddie willers]

Thanks....I stand corrected.

[gitmo]

I know your heart's in the right place.

FReep On.

[b4its2late]

War is hell ain't it?