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Thread #69284 Message #1178973
Posted By: Bee-dubya-ell
05-May-04 - 08:35 PM
Thread Name: BS: American Soldiers Torturing Iraqis
Subject: RE: BS: American Soldiers Torturing Iraqis
Yeah, I'm kinda late gettin' my two cents' worth in on this issue...
I'll admit that I'm not the brightest bulb on the Christmas tree, but even I'm smart enough to know that if I was a general in charge of keeping Iraqui prisoners locked up, one of the first things I'd do is have a big old staff meeting at which I would say something like, "Listen up people! The whole damned world is watching what we're doing here. There are millions of people just waiting for us to screw up so they'll have another reason to hate us. Be on your best behavior. Don't do anything stupid that can come back and bite you on the ass because it won't be just your ass that'll get bit."
The idea that nobody saw the possibility of this kind of thing taking place (and its consequences), and took the necessary steps to prevent it is almost as unbelievable to me as the idea that nobody thought about having contingency plans in case somebody hijacked a plane so they could fly it into a skyscraper. Aren't there people in Washington that get paid lots of the taxpayers' money to do nothing but think? What're we payin' 'em for?