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Marine Confesses He Witnessed Torture
Written by a Marine
| 04/25/2009
| Ed the Marine
Posted on 04/26/2009 6:20:31 AM PDT by Eric
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This was a letter to the editor submitted to the New York Times yesterday by a good friend of mine. There are no edits here, and it needs to be read like you are speaking, not reading. But the point comes home. Do you agree?
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posted on
04/26/2009 6:20:32 AM PDT
by
Eric
To: Eric
Poor treatment of prisoners - yes. Torture - no.
To: Eric
“Confesses?” So now it’s a crime to WITNESS torture?
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posted on
04/26/2009 6:25:32 AM PDT
by
Brilliant
To: Eric
Most of us know this, but it will never get published.
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posted on
04/26/2009 6:26:36 AM PDT
by
xcamel
(The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
To: plain talk
You gotta read the whole thing. Read it again.
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posted on
04/26/2009 6:26:58 AM PDT
by
saganite
(What would Sully do?)
To: Eric
Evidently a few people responded without reading the entire letter...!
Yes, it’s very good.
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posted on
04/26/2009 6:27:24 AM PDT
by
frankenMonkey
(www.citizendirect.org - this domain name for sale)
To: Brilliant
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posted on
04/26/2009 6:27:26 AM PDT
by
saganite
(What would Sully do?)
To: Brilliant; plain talk
Read the last couple of lines of the article. These were not prisoners, they were Marine recruits going through basic training.........
To: Brilliant
Do any of you ever read the entire article before you post a reply?
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posted on
04/26/2009 6:28:29 AM PDT
by
SwatTeam
To: Eric
Your friend certainly put it in perspective. Thanks for sharing.
Looks like some of the Freepers missed the part where he says he is talking about the Marine recruits, not prisoners!
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posted on
04/26/2009 6:28:35 AM PDT
by
FR_addict
(www.conservativesinactionusa.com)
To: Eric
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posted on
04/26/2009 6:28:46 AM PDT
by
ReleaseTheHounds
("The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.")
To: Eric
great letter, i hope it gets published.
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posted on
04/26/2009 6:28:49 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: SwatTeam
“Do any of you ever read the entire article before you post a reply?”
Not usually.
That’s why they generally get it all wrong.
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posted on
04/26/2009 6:30:05 AM PDT
by
Bigh4u2
(Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
To: Brilliant
Again, I posted this as it was written. I think the author wanted to get your attention...which he did, to make a point. By the way, I erred when I said there are no edits...to be published in the NYT, he had to submit his full name and phone number. I removed that before I posted here.
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posted on
04/26/2009 6:30:15 AM PDT
by
Eric
(Palin/Jindal 2012)
To: Eric
Absolutely agree!
If Kalid Sheik Mohammed was taken out into the woods in December at Camp Petawawa (NW of Ottawa) and left out there for a week, Democrats, ACLU and moslem sympathizers would all be screaming torture, deliberate freezing etc.
But that’s just part of JTF hell week that dozens of Canadian soldiers go thru every year.
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posted on
04/26/2009 6:30:41 AM PDT
by
Reverend Wright
(Global warming? Watch Solar Cycle 24, baby, not CO levels...)
To: FR_addict
The same and worse for Rangers, Seals, and certain other special forces..
To them, waterboarding is a sunday afternoon drinking game.
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posted on
04/26/2009 6:30:54 AM PDT
by
xcamel
(The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
To: SwatTeam
I did. As a former Marine myself, I was reading this and getting angrier by the word thinking ‘BS- I went through this in training! Torture, my ass!’.
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posted on
04/26/2009 6:32:39 AM PDT
by
Riley
(The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
To: Eric
God bless ED, my friends Chris and Mark and all the other FRiends and Marines and all others who serve this country in uniform.
Frankly if it means the lives af Americans or their own lives, and if it has a purpose, "enhance" your interrogations all you want.
Rememeber the other side cuts off heads and the aggressor sets the rules.
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posted on
04/26/2009 6:32:47 AM PDT
by
infidel29
(BARACkarl OBAmarx)
To: Eric
The NY Slimes will never publish it. God Bless those who served, though. Those of us who have endured such "torture" enjoy a special taste that freedom has. As the man said, that those who haven't can never know. Some future generation will resurrect what was once this great experiment for once the minions of Zero have done there will still be dirt here to stand on and people with a memory of freedom who once again bleed and fertilize that dirt so the tree of Liberty can once again bloom. There is going to be some seriously mind bending $hit that takes place in the meanwhile and I doubt that many of us now alive will see the day. What they are crafting now in our once great nation can not last and they know it. I suspect that is why many of them are able to vote for these ridiculous spending bills. They know that what they are proposing will never come to pass. Something bigger will intervene and the former grand dreams will become trivial. Sorry to be so cynical but on the other side of the valley there is a mountain from which I am sure there will be a great view.
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posted on
04/26/2009 6:33:26 AM PDT
by
wastoute
(translation of tag "Come and get them (bastards)" and the Scout Motto)
To: Eric
Our youngest son was waterboarded and exposed to extreme interrogation before deploying with the Navy to a sandy place.
It’s part of the training. But God forbid we do the same to people seeking to destroy the United States.
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posted on
04/26/2009 6:35:30 AM PDT
by
em2vn
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