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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
2) Kepp refusing to split-hairs, but it is apparent that certain forms of interrogation were policy in Afghanistan and were not policy in Iraq.
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Was that policy transmitted to the soldiers? What about to the intelligence officers who went from one torture cite in Afghanistan to another in Iraq?
Oh, I know -- they were told of the policy, but in one great big huge whomping coinkydink they all forgot.
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3) I still think the word "torture" - despite attempts to classify it in the GC and other treatises - is a subjective one and one that can never have an absolute definition.
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That's convenient.
Two questions: Do you think wrapping someone in a sleeping bag and beating him until he dies to be in the grey areas?
How would you have responded if Jessica Lynch had been blindfolded and led naked by a leash through downtown Baghdad? Would you have said "no big deal -- it's like a fraternity prank!" Or would you have decried this as yet another example of Saddam's barbarity?
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