[churchillbuff]

We didn't need "clarifications" to treat Japanese prisoners, even though the Japs attacked us out of the blue and we feared they were planning sabotage on the West Coast. But then, our moral code was higher back then. That was before abortion and porn and gay rights (notice that two of those cultural depravities - porn and gayness - were part of the abu grab mistreatment; our military - the military of MacArthur, Washington, Grant and Jackson - now takes porno pictures of captives. Sick. Apparently we need "clarifications" in Geneva Convention to permit this without the perpetrators being prosecuted.

[conservativeworkingmom]

I am just livid about this ridiculousness.

I am ready to break out my security moms for bush sweatshirt, my "my mom voted for bush because she loved me" t-shirts for the kids, hop on the metro with all three of them, and head down to the capitol tomorrow afternoon....
would anyone else like to come ?

[toddlintown]

Maybe we should buy them dinners, chill a bottle of bubbly for them, and send them to Branson for the weekend.

[tobyhill]

The congress could make it easy for everyone but putting three words into law,"whatever it takes". If it takes a bunch of belly slaps and the Red Hot Chili Peppers to save American lives then so be it but the ones interrogating shouldn't have to worry about prosecution because of subjective interpretations. I've heard the argument about only getting false information from "torture" but a good interrogator can take a page of lies and find truthful facts within the lies but sometimes it takes harsh measures to even get them lying.

[Petronski]

We didn't need "clarifications" to treat Japanese prisoners, even though the Japs attacked us out of the blue and we feared they were planning sabotage on the West Coast.

The Hamdan decision.

[Dolphy]

But then, our moral code was higher back then.

Right, that's why we have rounded up all of the Muslims, or did you forget the forcible internment of 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry?

[youthgonewild]

We didn't need "clarifications" to treat Japanese prisoners, even though the Japs attacked us out of the blue and we feared they were planning sabotage on the West Coast.

Keep it clean Senator Byrd

[sgtyork]

I'm not letting you get away with that smear. Abu Gharab was a dispicable act of poorly led, poorly trained soldiers. No one approved of that situation and it was investigated by higher authorities before the media made it the national humiliation that it was.

On the other side of the arguement, taking your position a Moooslim could claim that his interrogation by a female was degrading and she could be prosecuted for a war crime under the Geneva convention. Is that what you want?

Do we have a right to do any interrogation? or should we simply build a large Hilton hotel and provide inhouse phones for them to plan our destruction with?

Are you prepared for the next 9/11?