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The military should be the last resort, not the first.
Originally posted by Jakomo
I think Curme hit the nail on the head.
The military should be the last resort, not the first.
Diplomatic avenues were still open, but the US was already massing its' troops along the Iraq border.
There COULD have been a diplomatic solution to this, there is almost ALWAYS a non-military solution, problem is the Bush Administration hurried up and invaded without proper post-invasion planning.
And now you have untrained people guarding Prisoners Of War without ever even having been trained in the Geneva Conventions.
War makes people do terrible terrible things that they have to live with for the rest of their lives.
Maybe if Dubya's government had more people that had actually been IN a war, they would have been more careful.
But it's your kids and mine that are dying, not theirs.
Originally posted by UM_Gazz
I was reading this thread a while ago, and I couldn't help but remember the day I started this thread and the feelings I had back then.
A shameless bump... maybe.. But I think maybe some new members may want a look at it.. It was interesting to read though all over again.
Really I still can't believe I wrote it. Sometimes raw emotions bring out the truth.
And what I wrote when I started this thread is as true today of not more so than it was back then
Gazz
as posted by UM_Gazz
Think! ... a brain is only a waste as long as you are without an open mind.
" With all the social and medical advancements we can bring to the Independents, why would they fight so hard against us?"
Then River spoke up. "We meddle."
"River?" Rao sounded surprised "I'm sorry?"
"People don't like to be meddled with. We tell them what to do, what to think, don't run, don't walk, we're in their homes and in their heads and we haven't the right. We're meddlesome."
Originally posted by Bobbo
Originally posted by s0cket
It's not fair you take up the cause of speaking for America. I'm not shamed by it... I didn't have anything to do with it. It was bad what happened but you're being overly dramatic about it. The people who are involved obviously are going to be punished and that's that. It's not like these pictures where something you'd see on ------------------------- or something. The "torture" they endured is child's play compared to what they put our boy's through then they get captured.
So get real. No it wasn't right what happened. But keep it in prospective.
-sock
[Edited on 7-5-2004 by s0cket]
look at the US Troops in those photos- especially the woman- and look at her sadistic look. obviously she took pleasure in this at the time.
it saddens me that you feel no shame for the country, because imagine travelling abroad now- we're going to be looked at, every single citizen, as a member of the country that abuses it's prisoners. now granted abuse is common in other countries, but not from the US.