Reply #7: You know what is the most interesting thing about this? [View All]

[ComerPerro]

No one seems to care (in the mainstream) what you do to international prisoners. You hear the neocon rhetoric of "Well, they aren't citizens, so why show them any constitutional rights?"


ITS ABOUT OUR REPUTATION, ASSHOLES!!!

How do you think our POWs will be treated when people hear about what the US does to "enemy combatants"? Imagine the US outrage if, instead of being taken to a hospital and treated, Jessica Lynch was instead taken to a metal box to be held indefinately.

These people can only see wrongs when they happen to them. Otherwise, they don't give a shit. To them, these people at Gitmo are evil and deserve to be locked away forever. But what happens when someone they love gets put there, or horribly abused in a similar manner by a nation we are at war with?

These are the same people who think that the US government should endorse religion becuase it happens to be their religion. Its fine if the government is going to force Christianity down everyone's throat, because they believe in it anyway. But you try to get Islam to be the national religon, and watch them go apeshit.