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Thread #69485   Message #1180053
Posted By: dianavan
07-May-04 - 03:51 AM
Thread Name: BS: It is TORTURE not 'abuse'!!!
Subject: RE: BS: It is TORTURE not 'abuse'!!!
Bee-dubya-ell got it right.

Doesn't really matter if it was torture or abuse - most abuse is torturous. What matters is who will be blamed and punished. As pointed out - it won't be the well-paid, private contractors who actually carry out the torture and are immune from all military and civil law.

Unfortunately, it will be the army reservists who were trained as clerical staff, auto mechanic, etc. who will take the fall. The poor, uneducated and highly impressionable small-town kids who were assigned to a position where they were highly manipulated. I am so sick of the war mongers using these kids to do their dirty work. Its probably the first time some of them have even been away from home.

I'm not trying to say they are innocent. They are probably guilty but lets remember that military service changes people. I had a little brother who was a "cry baby." When he turned 18 he joined the Marines. He came home with eyes of steel. He's never been the same.