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Originally posted by Peetster
Read this part carefully: They will not rest until you are dead. Yes, you, the person reading this post right now. Unless you are an extreem radical fundamental Muslem, they despise you. They want to kill you. You are their sworn enemy.
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True.
My thoughts are that we, the American people and more importantly the American media, are largely responsible for this atrocity.
We've all heard that there have been far worse things done to Iraqi prisoners, that we will soon see and hear about.
However, what we have seen so far is frankly, pretty tame. Stacking naked guys in a pile? Doesn't sound like torture to me. Making someone stand on a box and telling them that they'll get electrocuted if they step off? Big f'ing deal.
The outrage the American public had to the naked dog pile, has given these beheading assholes fuel for their fire. They want us to start fighting amongst ourselves. It clouds the issue of who the enemy really is and in essence gives their cause credibility. (not that our cause is any better or more credible, at least our cause doesn't call for intentionally killing innocents).
Had we, the American public, not made such a big fuss over this goofy nonsense of what a few loser prison guards did for kicks, they would not have been able to use that against us.
By doing this to Berg and blaming it on what we did to their prisoners, they know they are hitting a nerve and they are attempting (and succeeding if you read the posts on these boards) to drive the wedge further and divide the American public.
It's unfotunate that other agendas come into play and influence decisions.
Also, for anyone to say anything remotely resembling the "we got what we deserved" quote I read somewhere on this board earlier, is absolutely idiotic.