05-11-2004, 04:09 PM
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Re: Warning: RANT inside
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Originally posted by Gilly
I am not a proponant for humane abuse, but answer me one question. Why are we spending money prosecuting our own soldiers for some rather minimal abuse (all things considered, I feel it was minimal- not right but not nearly as bad as it could have been), when the Iraqi's are doing 10x worse to the American soldiers, and televising it?
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Because 2 wrongs doesn't make it right. And I would not categorize what our soldiers did as minimal after having seen the rape pics.
It's war not a duel...it's ugly and it is going to be in our faces this time. People whose lives are on the line are rarely civil. Nor can we expect them to be. |