Any reputable shrink will tell you that such behaviour says far more about the “repressed … tendencies” of the captors than it does of the detainees subjected to such (and how could it be otherwise?; the only ones that are exhibiting voluntary behaviour here are the captors). And about the “repressed … tendencies” of those that applaud such behaviour….

Cheers,

So California, does Dana Rohrabacher faithfully represent your views… or his?

REALLY?

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Debbie Cook, Mayor of Huntington Beach.

Please support her in her efforts to unseat Dana Rohrabacher.

Debbie Cook for Congress

http://www.ocweekly.com/features/features/rogue-statesman/21591/

As well as all of you who have defended me in my abscence, I truly appreciate your convictions and your willingness to confront BS.

Again Thank You

RIP
SGT Stephen R. Sherman
C CO 1-5 In (STRYKER)
KIA 3 feb 2005
Mosul, Iraq

The one minor difference being that frat boys would be kicked out of school and sent to jail, whereas these guys…

“these are acts of humiliation”, not torture.

Oh how silly of us to confuse the two. Since you put it that way I guess it’s ok then. Run along now you little scamp.

There’s a certain right-leaning radio host who is contending that Rep. Rohrabacher is “defending the integrity of the U.S. Armed Services”. What a pile of crud.

The way to defend the integrity of the U.S. Armed Services is to charge, try, and convict the guilty parties, all the way to the top. If prisoner abuse were pursued Rummy, if not the Dick or the Chimp, would end up in prison.

We didn’t sign the Geneva, and other, Accords to protect our enemies. International treaties exist to protect our citizens who are held by a foreign power whether legit or not. No one can even guess how many thousands of American citizens have been spared torture, humiliation, starvation and death, because of our once sterling reputation earned by a standing tradition of treating prisoners with honor and respect.

That’s gone. The whole world knows, beyond the need of a show trial, that the Government of The United States of America ordered the systematic coercion, including by means of torture, of prisoners. And the blood of the next American tortured to death, and countless more for generations to come, will be on the hands of the criminals who pissed away the good will of the entire planet. If you believe in God, pray that our great grandchildren are forgiven the crimes of Bushco though it may prove more than we deserve.

We are attacked on Sept. 11, 2001. We (led by Republicans this time) decide we can’t afford to play by the rules. We have to violate the Bill of Rights and the Geneva Conventions, lock people away in Chekist brigs, invade other countries preemptively in the grand tradition of the Divine Emperor of Japan and the Reichskanzler of Germany, spy illegally on our own citizens, torture our prisoners, and bring the full force of the largest war machine in the world on a small country.
And our army is broken and at the edge of collapse, we lose the wars we initiated, and the person responsible for the attack is still at large and issuing mocking public statements.
We throw away all our principles, arguing we’ll lose if we play by the rules, and what happens?
We lose.
Over and over and over in the Bible the point is made: abandon the Law and you lose. Your riches will vanish, your armies crumble if you act without law, honor and justice.
It’s times like these that make me think there’s something to that book after all.

This was tried on me a few months ago by Mr.Pee and some other trolls. It didn’t work then and it wont work now. I will FOREVER honor MY SOLDIER by remembering him in EVERYTHING I DO, no matter what it is. the fact that I have served for 22 years (Army) and have put my life on the line countless times is just too much for some who have NEVER had the courage and the will to do so.

So they use tactics which I can only describe as dis-honorable. If you really want to talk to me and take a certain “tone” with me, you would meet at the Fort Lewis Museum in front of the 1st BDE 25th Ind Div fallen Soldier’s Monument, and then you can see me and the names all who fell in Iraq.

SGT Sherman WAS and WILL ALWAY’S BE MY SOLDIER. His Mother, Father, and Sister were present when the Monument was revealed and my Wife and I along with my Daughter (Air Force) escorted them and sponsored them during their entire time here, and we became close and now call ourselves FAMILY.

So the cheap and downright callous attacks by some here are really quite expected, because you see, when you have done nothing in defense of your country and others have you feel “short” and you compensate by attacking those who have.

So have your fun, claim that I havent done this or that (my DD214 says otherwise, and you might be impressed if you ever had the pleasure to read it), and continue to mock my Soldier, knowing full well that we will never meet and you will never pay for your words, at least you hope you dont.

Its something to have to listen to those who have not lost or sacrificed anything in this war. Those who blindly follow those who talk their talk. Well come walk mine and my former Soldier’s (all 117 of them) walk and see if you could make it, and if one of them should fall how would you take it.

You would take it like me and honor him/her just like I do by NEVER FORGETTING, no matter what some idiot had to say.

RIP
SGT Stephen R. Sherman
C CO 1-5 IN (STRYKER)
KIA 3 Feb 2005
Mosul, Iraq