[Mr. Mojo]

a Syrian and admitted Jihadist who was detained at Abu Ghraib

I have absolutely no problem with torturing a guy like this for info. .....by any means necessary.

[vaudine]

Says nothing about torture. Talked with a close friend of Michael Spann's famiy today (Killed in Afghanistan last year) and she said the family is extremely upset with the pictures coming out of Abu G. and the mention of this humiliation rising to the level of torture. Seems they tortured Michael before murdering him--things like breaking his legs and other unspeakable things that the pics and so-called torture of these detainees don't begin to rise to. They want to know why the media isn't juxtaposing pics and stories of true torture of Americans along with these pics. Seems Mr. Berg, who is supposed to be as a direct result of Abu G. is the only story of an American, when they have tortured, hacked up, burned Americans--and he is being centerpieced to back up the Abu G. stories and to show his family Bush-bashing.

I have more than had it with both the media and many in Congress who want to harp on about this mess. Let the Army and Rummie handle it. The pols are just jousting for face time.

I'm contacting Sens. Shelby and Sessions and my Rep. about doing something about stopping all the nonsense and censuring Ted the Perp.

And while I don't want to see our interrogators pull out fingernails or hack off body parts---if they know someone is a jihadist for sure, line him up in front of a firing squad and let the first volley go over his head. If that doesn't scare him into talking, come closer, and if still no answers, let the third time be the charm. I do not consider that torture, and terrorists do not come under the Geneva Conv.
These people UNDERSTAND that kind of interrogation, and since they already hate us, at least let them respect us--that kind of treatment they respect.

vaudine

[TheDon]

We are sure soft in this country. I wonder how many 9-11s it will take to toughen us up?

[Cementjungle]

Here's a quote from one of the victims there...wow!

"I was tortured under Saddam, but the torture was much more preferable to this because they didn't strip off my clothes and make me naked," he said, pointing to scars on his neck.

The full article:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&e=1&u=/ap/20040516/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_prisoner_in_the_picture

Now if Sadaam had stripped his prisoners instead of just torturing and murdering then, then maybe the press would have agreed that he was bad. Instead, Sadaam cleverly stopped short of the ultimate to avoid the scorn of the world.

[Poodlebrain]

A Syrian captured in Iraq should not be entitled to the protections of the Geneva Conventions. I have no problems with any means of interrogating such person as long as physical torture is not involved.