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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I see. So we expect so little of Bush and Rumsfeld et al. that it is equally newsworthy that Americans torture Iraqi prisoners as it was that Hussein committed atrocities. I, personally, was not surprised that Hussein committed atrocities -- I thought he was a bad man -- but I was surprised that our military was torturing people -- I didn't think they were bad men and women. So I thought the latter was "news" and the former wasn't.
Apparently it was "news" to you that Hussein was a bad man, but you expected our troops to commit war crimes. Funny that.
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Mass graves containing thousands of murdered humans don't qualify one as simply a "bad" man. They qualify you as a mass murderer. Mass murder is always big news. Unless, of course, you just don't care about the people who were murdered.
This is (again) what I mean about lacking perspective.
