Or, if for some unfathomable reason they can't see that it's wrong, why can't they see that it's very counterproductive? in that torture doesn't yield reliable info and it has made many more people throughout the world hate us... Oh, and another reason why we didn't used to torture people is to make it less likely our soldiers and citizens would be tortured if they were captured.
When you look back at this, in the three seconds it'll take you to turn to dust, I think you'll find the mistake was touching my stuff.
Buffy ,'Lessons'
Natter 39 and Holding
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
tommyrot - Oct 19, 2005 7:29:09 pm PDT #7459 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
tommyrot - Oct 19, 2005 7:42:22 pm PDT #7460 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Consuela - Oct 19, 2005 8:19:47 pm PDT #7461 of 10002
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Now that I've seen the rest of it -- it appears that the abuse is endemic, and not confined to the prisons or formal interrogations. One of the former interrogators is testifying that it's happening all over Iraq.
P.M. Marc - Oct 19, 2005 8:40:19 pm PDT #7462 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I keep waiting for sme other country to roust Bush out of bed all crazy in his underwear and then liberate us.
Me too.
Burrell - Oct 19, 2005 8:52:46 pm PDT #7463 of 10002
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
HRm. I can't respond right now to the torture thing. My thoughts are too... too... I have too many of them on the subject. (No, it's true. I tried to write an essay on it but then I got pregnant, and now all those thoughts are there just waiting to be written down.)
Anyway, I had a great birthday. One of my students brought me flowers. And then after school, we went to a little French cafe I like and Franny was all perky but basically well behaved and Isaac was sweet as usual and I had steak au poivre and Franny ate most of my frites.
Now I am tired.
Lee - Oct 19, 2005 8:55:04 pm PDT #7464 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Yay! for great Birthdays.
Burrell - Oct 19, 2005 9:12:24 pm PDT #7465 of 10002
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
It was of the yay, Perkins. Although I feel the need for cake, so I may need to find a way to make that happen. Too bad you live so far away these days.
Lee - Oct 19, 2005 9:14:00 pm PDT #7466 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
I know! But you will come visit, and I bet we can find cake here, if we look hard enough.
Burrell - Oct 19, 2005 9:18:33 pm PDT #7467 of 10002
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Yes, there's got to be cake somewhere around there.
Consuela - Oct 19, 2005 9:20:39 pm PDT #7468 of 10002
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
There is very good cake here.
Happy Birthday, Burrell! Since it still is, for the next 40 minutes.