Ok, DougR. This is what I said:

if DougR hadn't shifted from his denial stance to a stance of trying to brush off and/or justify the abuse.

And these posts are examples of what I was referring to...


This one is justification:

Subject: RE: BS: It is TORTURE not 'abuse'!!!
From: DougR - PM
Date: 07 May 04 - 02:42 AM

So, McGrath, if you were the officer in charge of interrogation, how would YOU get the information you needed? Offer them tea and cakes, and hope they cooperate? What is an acceptable way of gaining intelligence? Sleep deprivation is not torture. It's a method of gaining needed information.

Oh, I know, we shouldn't capture the enemy in the first place. We don't need intelligence, right? We should simply be Superman and leap over buildings.

Give me a break.


And this one is brushing off:

DougR
Subject: RE: BS: It is TORTURE not 'abuse'!!!
From: DougR - PM
Date: 12 May 04 - 01:26 AM

I suppose you could not call what happened to the young man who was beheaded as torture either. It was probably all over pretty quick for him, right? I wonder why the terrorists didn't do real damage to the poor young guy? They could have forced him to strip his clothes off or something! That would have been major torture!

DougR