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To: M. Dodge Thomas

Well... so long as were are prepared to accept such treatment of out own troops if captured, no problem.

If that was all our troops had to look forward to as
prisoners......not beheadings, or being emasculated,
or hung from bridges and set on fire.


57 posted on 09/24/2005 6:51:17 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: tet68
This argument, it seems to me, comes down to:

“Terrible things are going to happen to our troops in any case, so there is no signficiant down-side if we do at least some of these things to our own prisoners.”

If people are really satisfied with this argument, in appears likely that nothing I can say (or more to the point, nothing that’s said by members of the US military who also question these tactics) is likely to change their minds.

61 posted on 09/24/2005 7:55:14 AM PDT by M. Dodge Thomas
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