When I see things like this, it just makes me wonder what’s wrong with people. I can’t even begin to describe my disgust at having read this:
I gave an eight-minute speech on torture once, looking up all sorts of international laws against its use. It’s too bad that some people don’t seem to care.
Agreed:
Yeah, eminem is sheer torture. Whenever I hear 'Slimshady' I want to confess to terrorism too, just to make it stop. But you really should keep up on ol' GW. According to him, "WE DO NOT TORTURE." I wish I could afford to emigrate some time
Sad.:
Really makes me more annoyed all the time about how things work. Makes me feel more and more helpless and pessimistic about where the US stands currently, and is sliding towards too.
Unfortunately…:
…we will never know if this is true or not. Notice how ABC didn't say who the sources were? Can we really trust the media these days? What about the who CBS scandal that resulted in Dan Rather's resignation. I don't trust the media to tell me the truth when there are politics involved because they will just put their own spin on it and possibly even resort to lying. There's my two cents. I would ask for some change, but you probably want me to pay you to listen to my opinion anyway. :p
Media spin.:
Media spin or not, the idea that our troops who are supposed to be the banners of democracy in the middle east are engaging in routine acts of abuse is appalling. Are we better than the regime we removed? Wasn't the torture of prisoners one of the reasons we went after Iraq in the first place? I think it's pretty disturbing that one of our elected officials publicly declared, "I don't care what goes on in those prisons." As for media bias, check out FOX news sometime, they're the closest thing to Das Reich we have. And as for being true or not, perhaps you weren't around for the last six months when they discovered cd's full of pics of detainee abuse or the six or seven court martials the military held over them.
I have my own qualms:
Especially when believing anything from the media. I wasn't sure to put this up or not because I question the authenticity of most "news" reports, but I was more concerned with the idea that torture is still taking place all over the globe and that the US is most likely no better than anyone else, and that makes me sad. People are capable of such horrible things. 🙁