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Hey all you patriotic Americans who condone “harsh interrogation techniques”, does BAA Boy speak for you?
"Seem like a few of you have forgotten that these fine upstanding terrorist want you dead and want our soldiers dead. In the heat of battle, I'm sorry, I can forgive an awful lot of s***. Especially when is comes to getting information out of a piece of s*** who would rather kill you then look at you." 
"In the heat of battle..."? HORSE PUCKEY, BAA BOY! These are captives, bud, and characterizing them as excrement doesn't elevate you to a higher moral, ethical or legal ground - quite the contrary! It makes you a BULLY! A PERVERSE HUMAN BEING WHO ENJOYS HURTING OTHERS WHO CANNOT DEFEND THEMSELVES!
Here's another first-hand report from the Human Rights Watch files.
Sergeant “Nick Forrester” (pseudonym at the Sergeant’s request) was with the 82nd Airborne Division at FOB Tiger, al Qaim, Iraq, from early May 2003 through late September 2003.
Nick said that he and other guards were under orders to subject all incoming detainees to severe sleep deprivation and exposure to dangerously high temperatures by forcing them to stand for 24 hours straight - facing the wall inside a metal shipping container.
“Nick described what happened when detainees were first brought into the facility:
“Standard procedure, when I was there, you [i.e., the detainees] had twenty-four hour inside the Conex [container] . . . you’re blind-folded, you’re zip-stripped, your hands are behind your back; your feet usually weren’t, unless there was a particularly volatile prisoner—somebody who’d caused a lot of trouble, they’d hitch the feet as well. You were there, twenty-four hours: no sleep, no food, no water.
“The temperatures inside the container, Nick said, were extreme:
“Early on, when I first got there, it only got up to about 115, but by July and August, we were regularly between 135 and 145 [Fahrenheit]. [Inside the container] it was really extremely hot, to the point where it was irritating to go into the back of the Conex to get somebody out to use the restroom, which is usually the only thing they were allowed to do. . . there was no talking, none of that inside there.
“It was your job to make sure that they weren’t sleeping. . . . You’d shout something in there, every once in a while, you’d have a head check, or something like that. Nod their head, you know. . . .
“At night time, a lot of the guards would walk by, unload the magazine from the rifle, bang on the side [of the metal container] for a little bit to make sure that you know, everybody was awake. And you’d catch them if they’d fall asleep—they’d fall over because they’re bound. You see, they’d try to lean their head against the wall [but] you’d slap on [the container] to make sure they lift their head back up off the wall, or do whatever it took to make sure they’d stay awake.
“And then usually, after that 24 hour period, they were taken over and talked to [interrogated] for the first time”
These aren't North VietNamese Tiger Cages with Dirty, Rat Commie guards mistreating captives - these are American Comex containers with our GIs routinely mistreating prisoners! Is there any difference?
C'mon BAA Boy, use your mind rather than your Rambo-esque emotions to answer that question - give us a persuasive argument to justify this treatment!
One more comment BAA Boy - in another article I quoted this from the NYT:
"On the campaign trail, Mr. McCain does not dwell on the personal details of his own five and a half years as a prisoner of war, the 'torture ropes' in which he was bound day and night, or the beatings he endured. But as he speaks, the physical reminders his wounds are there for all to see, from the stiffness of his arms, which to this day he can only painfully raise above his head, to the shortness of his stride, a result of injury and subsequent beatings..."
The bullying, physical abuse such as you advocate has left this former naval aviator in this condition. While McCain and I have few points of agreement politically, I've applauded the man in every forum I've attended where he's been present.
C'mon BAA, justify what was done to Senator McCain!
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