Posted on 01/14/2009 5:19:12 AM PST by Malone LaVeigh
“Not quite sure what your point is”
My point was that each and every example I sighted could have been cited as war crimes, if such a thing as the U.N. or the World Court existed at the time. I thereby underlined your argument, namely, “The notion that there are laws in war is why we don’t win wars anymore”.
You are right.
Gotcha....getting hard to tell around here anymore.
"It did shock me," Crawford said. "I was upset by it. I was embarrassed by it. If we tolerate this and allow it, then how can we object when our servicemen and women, or others in foreign service, are captured and subjected to the same techniques? How can we complain? Where is our moral authority to complain? Well, we may have lost it."
I had to stop reading here.
No, the embarrassment is that this woman, who knows the extent of real torture to which our own military people have been subjected, could call what this terrorist endured torture. Even if it was abusive it cannot compare with what has been done to our own. I can't believe there is one of our own who wouldn't have gladly exchanged places with those enduring our interrogation techniques. Are there no limits to their notions of moral equivalency?
The torture is in patriotic U.S. citizens having to watch as people like this woman undermine America. She, and others like her, through ignorance or by design, are doing more damage to our country with the accumulation of leftist politically correct complicity, helping the cause of the enemy, than has been done to that terrorist, or others like him, who have been interrogated by our intelligence people.
She joins with the Left in handing our enemies something they could never win with their evil tactics - the PR victory. Foreign enemies never could have accomplished the harm against the United States of America that has been done from within by her own citizens.
...plus spending a but-load of cash to do it. Yeah, sounds like torture to me. Perhaps you should just act like a terrorist? The US govt could torture you for free.
Nope, naive would be a step up for her. She is brain dead.
Interesting. Is this the same Susan Crawford? Maybe not since the Obama Crawford is a computer geek. But if it is, then she was probably paid for the comments, if only briefly, with a prestige job in the Obama admin that certainly disrespects our right of free speech :
Team Obama Keeps Pushing to Take Over the Internet
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Fox News ^ | October 05, 2009 | Phil Kerpen
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