Sure I can. My defense is called Reality, and there's no reason that you should think I'm attacking you in any way; I'm actually rather fond of ya these days.
Quote:Why then did the article not say how many prisioners were tortured? To what degree were they "tortured".
The reason the article exists in the first place is because one of the UN task force on Torture guys leaked the fact that the Americans are copping to torture in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Gitmo in front of the committee. The article itself refers to a pentagon document, and this is the important part, which will not be publicly released until May 2006.
You can't report details that the military admits exist, but won't let you see. The article isn't about reporting specific facts or figures, merely reporting what was said in front of the commiteee; and even that wasn't supposed to have been made public.
Don't you see how hard it is to get the truth out of these people? You think they make it easy to find out about misconduct and abuses, especially when someone other than the lower-level troops are implicated? It isn't easy. It takes a long time and a lot of work to uncover the truth.
'Blame America first,' my ass. Who am I supposed to blame for torture that Americans committ? The guy being tortured? Some other country? Who? I am a patriot and strident supporter of our country, which is why I feel we need to get to the heart of the matter.
There is a cancer eating away at us, and instead of exploratory surgery, you want us to ignore it. Well, I'm not going to ignore it and I'm not going to shut up about it so you'd better just get used to it.
Cycloptichorn