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Originally Posted by Rdr4evr
Isn't it funny how we torture and murder people to show that torturing and murdering people is wrong?
The justifications were that of WMD's and 9/11, which were both proven to be incorrect. The public was taken advantage of by the administration because it was in a time where they were in fear of their lives built by the propaganda that the administration spewed to justify the war after the trade center attacks, therefore, they went right along and supported it.
Don't you find it interesting that we attack Afghanistan to hunt down the supposed mastermind of 9/11 with only a couple thousand troops and immediately afterwards, once the false propaganda has been spewed, we deploy 50 times that in Iraq? Doesn't it make you question why we went after someone who had nothing to do with 9/11 and wasn't a threat to the US in any way shape or form while we abandon and set free Osama?
If you truly believe that the intention of the war was to liberate the Iraqis because Bush felt genuinely heart broken by the oppression that Saddam brought upon them, you have been heavily misguided.
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I wholeheartedly agree with your post.
How can we say we are there for "liberation" when we have pictures of soldiers torturing, have stories of our troops murdering prisoners and acting with no honor or dignity at all?
What's worse is when we try these sadists, they recieve slaps on the wrists and seemingly the citizenry is not appalled by any of this for there are few outcries (such as the Sgt. that made 2 swim until they drowned, when tried he got 6 months and no loss of rank).
It is quite amazing how the administration truly does nothing.
YOU WANT ME TO SUPPORT THIS WAR, THEN PUT OUR WAR CRIMINALS ON TRIAL AND DON'T JUST GIVE THEM A SLAP ON THE WRIST!!!!! IF I SEE THAT THEN MAYBE I CAN BUY INTO THE WHOLE "LIBERATION" STORY.
DISCLAIMER: NOWHERE DO I ACCUSE ALL OF OUR TROOPS OF THIS BEHAVIOUR AND NOONE SHOULD EVER IMPLY THAT I DID. I AM SINGLING OUT THE FEW BAD EGGS THAT HAVE GIVEN THE REST OF OUR BRAVE MEN AND WOMEN A BAD NAME. I SUPPORT OUR TROOPS BUT WILL NEVER SUPPORT NOR FORGIVE THOSE WHO ABUSE THEIR POWER, FROM THE PRESIDENT DOWN.
It is also hypocrisy that we can send 100's maybe 1000's to prisons for life with no trial and no justification. Where's the "liberation and promotion of the American way of life" there?