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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bob who wrote (483461)	10/29/2003 6:16:31 PM
From: Ish	Respond to of 769670

I'm with you 1,000 %.

To: Bob who wrote (483461)	10/29/2003 6:48:30 PM
From: cnyndwllr	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Why don't you try to THINK for awhile instead of just running around in a blind panic and overreacting to every noise and shadow. The PROBLEM with war crimes is that they ALWAYS HAVE A JUSTIFICATION. It's easier to kill prisoners than to guard them. It's safer to wipe out a village than to trust that there are no insurgents there. It's safer to shoot anything that moves than to be sure of a threatening target before you spray bullets. And it's certainly more efficient to interrogate possible bad guys by beating them up and shooting beside their heads than it is to afford them the protections required by international law. In fact, it's even more efficient to cut off parts of their anatomy, execute their fellow prisoners, kill their wives and children or whatever to get them to talk. Your really get to dismember the truly innocent since they never give up any useful information. The point is that just as we accept some risks in order to protect some freedoms, we also accept some risks and adhere to the Geneva Conventions in order to be sure that we don't become those whom we despise. You just don't get that, do you? I think it's because you're so afraid. I've been there and made the choice to do it right and take the risk. I've seen guys that couldn't understand that reasoning because they were so scared. It's not strength, it's weakness that leads to that path and it's not what has made this country great. By the way, what DID you think when the White House was circulating the rumor that our POWS in Iraq were being tortured and beaten for information? Were you outraged that those cruel Iraqis were publishing their pictures in violation of the rules of the Geneva Convention? Or maybe you were thinking to yourself, "Hey, good thinking on their part, torturing our guys and gals may save some of their troops from getting killed?