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Old 05-17-2004, 01:29 PM   #91 (permalink)
Amethyst
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I think that the beheading is worse than the nude pyramids any day. And if you had to think hard about that question.......well I don't know what to tell you. I am in agreement with almost everything that edwhit said in his post.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by edwhit
[B]What a few americans did to a few iraqi's in prison was terrible. The prisoners may have been innocent. It is doubful, but almost always possible.

Berg was innocent. Everyone knows he was innocent (except some conspiracy theory freaks). They did not care that he was innocent. They just wanted to punish america. But I do not believe for a second that he was killed because of the abuse news.

The murderers were not exactly the common iraqi citizen. They are terrorists. Terrorists kill innocent people all the time. What I DO believe is that the abuse stirred up enough people that they decided it was a convenient time to Slay him in the hopes of further turning people against the US.

I have talked to a friend that was raped and she feels it would not be better to be killed than tortured (thinking mainly of the rape part) Her thinking was that people don't always survive rape. Many people are psychologically ruined for life often taking their families with them. That is (or can be for some) a living death. She feels they are equally bad.

My thinking is that one has a chance to survive torture. One has NO chance to survive death.

What does it matter? This whole topic matters to me because I see Americans turning on our government and blaming our government for the beheading of an innocent man (who was trying to help innocent people). While the ripple effect often causes unfortunate events, it is not always the best logic.

In a perfect world we should all obey the laws perfectly. If I was alone in a room with someone that killed my best friend and raped a little girl I should give that person the same rights as an innocent man unjustly held in prison. However, if the opportunity came I would be hard pressed NOT to beat the crap out of him at the very least. It is wrong. I know.

Now wait a minute! I know, they were probably not all guilty of those crimes. I'm sure they just jay walked or something. As a responsible nation, we should NOT have raped any prisoners or sexually abused them. We should not have threatened to have them electrecuted or had our dogs bite them. Those guards did countless things they should not have done I'm sure.

But come on now. Throwing cold water on them? WHO CARES! Depriving them of sleep? I'm depriving myself of sleep right now. Some of those "abuses" are just pathetic. We are in the middle of a war. Get over it! Punish the bad guys no matter who they are and move on!

We admit our faults. Did the terrorists?
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