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To: one_less who wrote (471023)	4/12/2009 7:35:59 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1575538

I guess the thing that really aggravates me more than any other is that the US is consistently the best in existence as far as torture and mistreatment of of prisoners goes. How many countries can you think of who actually punish their soldiers for atrocities? Or for that matter, who actually discourage atrocity? As to "torture", a person either sees waterboarding as torture or he doesn't. I don't. And frankly, I don't care about the kind of mild humiliation that occurred at Abu Ghraib and there certainly wasn't anything done at Gitmo that could be classified as "torture". At least not that there are credible reports about. I think the US ought to observe higher standards than the rest of the world. After all, we are the greatest nation. But to be criticized when we are already adhering to the highest standards in the world, that's just insane. Instead of bashing the US where any incidence is minimal, I think the time would be far better spent going after other nations. Or go after Peru for the way in which it treats its state prisoners. Whatever. There are plenty of better targets. It just seems to me that those who raise this issue against the US are trying to find reasons to blame America first.