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Graner gets 10 years for torture

Posted on 01/15/2005 2:32:03 PM PST by AVNevis

Per MSNBC


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To: nopardons

"Are you Canadian...eh?"

You crack me up...and not in the good way...


281 posted on 01/15/2005 5:56:20 PM PST by Getsmart64 (LANTIRN - Designed to kill, maim, and destroy ....America's enemies...)
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To: zzen01

And what are the UN "peacekeepers" getting, who abuse children, raping little 12-year old girls?

If a US soldier puts panties on the head of a terrorist, he gets jail term, when UN abuses innocent children -- I just heard on Fox, there are at least 150 cases and most likely more, because the girld don't dare to come forward, for fear of retaliation -- NOTHING happens.


282 posted on 01/15/2005 5:58:06 PM PST by FairOpinion
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To: TexKat

"FYI: Graner and his crew have the blood of the contractors whose burnt bodies hung from that green bridge plus on their hands."

Don't beat around the bush...spit it out...


283 posted on 01/15/2005 5:59:01 PM PST by Getsmart64 (LANTIRN - Designed to kill, maim, and destroy ....America's enemies...)
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To: boomop1
He did no such thing, the animals were chopping heads of innocents way before his actions he should have torched their nuts..

Except that the folks he was abusing were arrested for street crimes, robbery and the like. Not everyone in prison in Iraq is there for attacks against U.S. forces you know.

284 posted on 01/15/2005 5:59:08 PM PST by 1LongTimeLurker
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To: GatorPaul; Getsmart64

http://www.agonist.org/annex/taguba.htm
The following is the text of the Taguba report with only the names of some witnesses removed for the sake of privacy.


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4894001/
Executive summary of Article 15-6 investigation of the 800th
Military Police Brigade by Maj. Gen. Antonio M. TagubaNBC News


285 posted on 01/15/2005 5:59:16 PM PST by MEG33 (GOD BLESS OUR ARMED FORCES)
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To: Da Mav
Yes, the media was handed a story, but they turned it into a circus, and one which hurt America and endangered Americans. How you can hold them blameless in this matter is beyond my understanding.

It's easy. I assume no more good will or fairness out of the media than I would a pack of starving wolves. It as natural for the media to distort as it is for hungry animals to kill. I'm beyond wanting them to be fair. It won't happen. Now, all I care about is for us to stop feeding them meat like Abu Ghraib, in hopes of starving them out.

Even today, the 'media' drags up Abu Ghraib at the drop of a hat. ... This story has legs for one reason -- the antiwar left wants to discredit the Iraq War.

This is all true. They don't play fair.

To blame that all on Graner, dispicable though he may be, is shortsighted and lack basic fairness.

To blame all of what? Graner broke the law, and is being punished. You can ascribe all kinds of other injustices to his particular case, but the fact of the matter is that he did wrong, and will face military justice.

287 posted on 01/15/2005 6:02:14 PM PST by Steel Wolf (Smokey, this is not 'Nam. This is bowling. There are rules. Mark it zero, Dude.)
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To: Steel Wolf
"Blaming the media is disingenous. The Army needs to maintain discipline regardless of whether or not anyone is watching."

Ok....let's choose one topic and and blow it out of proportion...sheesh...do you have any idea what happened in the Civil War....WWI...WWII...Korea...Vietnam...let's put some panties on a guys head....strip some doods nekkid...takes some pics...and all hell breaks loose...sheesh...get real...
288 posted on 01/15/2005 6:03:23 PM PST by Getsmart64 (LANTIRN - Designed to kill, maim, and destroy ....America's enemies...)
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To: TexKat

Yawn....


289 posted on 01/15/2005 6:04:22 PM PST by Getsmart64 (LANTIRN - Designed to kill, maim, and destroy ....America's enemies...)
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To: Getsmart64

It is spelled dude..not dood.


291 posted on 01/15/2005 6:05:23 PM PST by MEG33 (GOD BLESS OUR ARMED FORCES)
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To: Palladin
Explains what?

That this individual has a brain, is cultured, has traveled extensively .... and on and on.

Explains that he's not an idiot like .... ?

292 posted on 01/15/2005 6:06:33 PM PST by ~Peter
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To: Getsmart64
....why are we having military personnel guarding regular civilian criminals??...or are they?

If not regular civilian criminals, then I guess we have been releasing terrorists from Abu Ghraib by the hundreds for some time now.

More than 600 released from Abu Ghraib prison

May 29, 2004

ABU GHRAIB PRISON, Iraq – Raising their voices in slow, melodic chants of "God is Great," hundreds of Iraqis took over a highway in front of Abu Ghraib prison yesterday to greet buses carrying out 623 men and one woman after months of detention.

Nearly 300 Iraqis released from Abu Ghraib prison May 15, 2004

ABU GHRAIB, Iraq -- After months at Abu Ghraib prison, Hussein Sami did not complain of physical abuse upon his release. But Sami -- among 293 detainees freed Friday -- said guards shouted at and insulted inmates, and the prison was unsafe because insurgents target it with mortar rounds.

The release came a day after a surprise visit by U.S. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, who recommended decreasing the prisoner population.

More prisoners released from Abu Ghraib - May 28, 2004

US forces in Iraq have released more detainees from the Abu Ghraib prison outside Baghdad. Buses carrying the prisoners drove out of the complex as thousands of people gathered outside hoping for news of detained relatives. An American spokeswoman says up to 600 people were due to be freed. Last week, more than 400 people were released from Abu Ghraib, which has been at the centre of a scandal over the abuse of inmates.

There are plenty other instances. A google search will reveal all others.

293 posted on 01/15/2005 6:06:46 PM PST by TexKat (Just because you did not see it or read it, that does not mean it did or did not happen.)
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To: Max Combined
Not in this country, no, but what civil rights does one have under martial law in Iraq? Are civil rights guaranteed in their constitution? Oh, that's right, they had no constitution.

Shall I point out Article 64 of the 4th Geneva Convention?

Art. 64. The penal laws of the occupied territory shall remain in force ...
And you know what? Our rights are not given to us by our Constitution. These rights exists in all men in all countries by virtue of their being human beings. All our Constitution does is tell the federal government that they may not cross the line and violate any of the natuaral God-given rights listed in the Amendments. We would have those rights with or without the Constitution. The Iraqis have those rights as well. The whole point of our being in their country is to help them establish a government that is committed to maintaining those rights among the Iraqi people just as our government is constituted to not infringe on our rights.
294 posted on 01/15/2005 6:07:20 PM PST by FreedomCalls (It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
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To: Getsmart64
Don't beat around the bush...spit it out...

I did not beat around the bush, I posted plainly.

You have access to the internet, use it wisely.

295 posted on 01/15/2005 6:09:07 PM PST by TexKat (Just because you did not see it or read it, that does not mean it did or did not happen.)
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To: FreedomCalls

"The whole point of our being in their country is to help them establish a government that is committed to maintaining those rights among the Iraqi people just as our government is constituted to not infringe on our rights."

Don't be silly. Helping them establish a government that is committed to maintaining rights among the Iraqi people is not worth the death of a single American, let alone a thousand.

Grow up and learn a little bit about the real world if you want to be taken seriously.


296 posted on 01/15/2005 6:13:49 PM PST by Max Combined
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To: TexKat
'Torture' is immoral, but it is also relative. Sex torture is unimaginative and naive.
What I would have done is play Barry Manilow records 24/7 to them. They would have melted into submission in short order!
297 posted on 01/15/2005 6:15:43 PM PST by krinkrayyado (Huguenot in my church)
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To: Long Cut

Hmm.....ok...will look at the Taguba report and form my own conclusions....but..but...when the Geneva Convention is imposed on non-traditional combantants...the rules need to change...

:A civilian tech rep? Gee, what a shock (not)."

Ever here of Balad??....and did you say you were a squid on a boat? As a tech rep with prior military experience...my position requires me to "go where the troops go"...next time you see a American civilian in Iraq...ask him why he is there when he doesn't have to be...I'm done talking with you...good luck!


298 posted on 01/15/2005 6:16:46 PM PST by Getsmart64 (LANTIRN - Designed to kill, maim, and destroy ....America's enemies...)
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To: Getsmart64
As a tech rep with prior military experience...my position requires me to "go where the troops go"...next time you see a American civilian in Iraq...ask him why he is there when he doesn't have to be...I'm done talking with you...good luck!

Some, now mind you I did say some, are there for the MONEY.

299 posted on 01/15/2005 6:20:07 PM PST by TexKat (Just because you did not see it or read it, that does not mean it did or did not happen.)
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To: TexKat

"You have access to the internet, use it wisely."

Some of us should take our own advice...


300 posted on 01/15/2005 6:22:19 PM PST by Getsmart64 (LANTIRN - Designed to kill, maim, and destroy ....America's enemies...)
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