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Here we go again... dead detainee cover up at "The Salt Pit"
mr.Curmudgeon:
--- Quote from: Santoro on March 04, 2005, 04:07:00 pm ---I get annoyed when lone --missioncontrols-- are portrayed as the face of the United States.
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My point in bringing it up is that, while unfortunate, we need to uphold such high standards and act accordingly when they are undermined, solely *because* lone --missioncontrols-- like this will be portrayed as the face of the United States. That's the price we pay for having such power.
--- Quote ---Hey, we agreed twice in one thread. Not bad.
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Surely Hell hath frozen over? :)
mrC
Santoro:
Sure enough.
HaRuMaN:
--- Quote from: mr.Curmudgeon on March 04, 2005, 03:37:52 pm ---Uh oh, is right.
This, w/ the bombing in Iraq that has killed 150+, coupled with the latest news that American soldiers have just shot an Italian Journalist who was *just* released by her kidnappers in Iraq and things aren't looking so good for Bush's Middle East adventures.
mrC
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The vehicle she was in was approaching a coalition checkpoint at a very high rate of speed. Considering the increasing number of car-bombings there, I would say it was a justifiable mistake, and she's fortunate to be alive.
Crazy Cooter:
--- Quote from: Santoro on March 04, 2005, 04:07:00 pm ---I get annoyed when lone --missioncontrols-- are portrayed as the face of the United States.
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How many "lone --missioncontrols--" have there been now? With all the mistakes/accidents/whatever that have been happening, this is the face of America that we are showing the world. Why can't we live what we preach? Instead here's another example of trying to "cheat the system".
Bush needs serious help in foreign relations.
Peale, if we agree or not with what our Country does, we still have to answer for it. What our govmnt does is seen as the "will of the people" by those living outside the US. And with all the abuse stuff, "sidestepping" of the US constitution and the Geneva Conventions, and all the other "stuff" we've talked about, I really don't think that the people making the decisions have a clue what freedom is. We, as the public, are supposed to be the puppeteers of our govmnt. I think somewhere it got turned around. If a person/country wanted to get revenge for what they see is wrong, they aren't going to try and find the policy makers, they'll take it out on the first American they see. We're all stuck in the same boat whether we like it or not.
Santoro, to get partial credit for something like this is absurd. We're supposed to fighting against this exact kind of behaivior, not promoting it under "certain conditions".
Santoro:
--- Quote from: Crazy Cooter on March 04, 2005, 07:53:40 pm ---[Santoro, to get partial credit for something like this is absurd. We're supposed to fighting against this exact kind of behaivior, not promoting it under "certain conditions".
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So there are literally thousands and thousands of men and women risking thier lives to make things better in Afghanistan, but it all comes to naught because of a bad dude in some prison?