Droopy wrote:Try again, and this time, let's be serious, OK?
My two examples met
in every way your stipulations as listed here:
Droopy wrote:As a side note, I'd like you to provide one, single, solitary example of anything remotely resembling what reasonable people would term "torture' being applied by U.S. personal on terrorists in the custody of the military.
They were:
1. terrorists.
2. in U.S. Military custody.
3. being tortured according to the definition of what
reasonable people (not you) would define as torture.
By the way, thank Elvis they even took pictures OF THAT TORTURE, otherwise, you, Droopy, would deny it ever happened, no matter how many credible witnesses came forward to attest to its truth.
Do you understand who these people are, Hally?
Do YOU understand that the U.S military let the large majority of these same people free, because they had
not one, single, solitary shred of evidence to prove they were anything other than innocent civilians?
Oh, and by the way, what, precisely, does your second photo show (I'd be much more impressed with some actual facts and evidence, than with images - I'm not a Gen Xer.
Oh, you didn't like that one? It wasn't explicit enough, with the blood and the terror and pain on the "terrorist's" face? I notice you didn't mention the Lindy England one at all. Conveniently forgot to, eh? Well, here are a few more that might be slightly more intelligible, even for you. And by the way, the reason I'm using pictures is that ANY textual evidence I will present will just be dismissed summarily by you, and YOU know it. Also, I am operating under the assumption that sexual humiliation and torture IS IN FACT torture, which it sounds like, you do not agree.
Here's a nice collage:
Here's some more of that sexually non-humiliating, non-torture:
Here, a soldier's hand is raised in the act of beating a bound and blindfolded prisoner:
Do you seriously want me to go on? Because I can. Ooooh, yes, I can.
Answer me just one question, Droopy. If even ONE of our civilians, or military
personnel (not 'personal' as you wrote it) were treated in this manner, would you call it torture? Would you?