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I remember a trial, not any pictures.
warning. very graphic
here is website with a photo
open at your own risk
16th March 1968
I remember a trial, not any pictures.
I like to think there is a difference between us and the terrorists treatment of people living and dead.
but it does not take much imagination to imagine how their kin and countrymen would respond to that photoPeople go to long lengths to justify their feelings... and the dead don't complain much.
I remember a trial, not any pictures.
People go to long lengths to justify their feelings... and the dead don't complain much.
And violating international law as well which forbids “outrages upon personal dignity, in particular humiliating and degrading treatment,” and contains this provision specific to treatment of the dead:
International Humanitarian Law - First 1949 Geneva Convention
Nationals of a State which is not bound by the Convention are not protected by it. Nationals of a neutral State who find themselves in the territory of a belligerent State, and nationals of a co-belligerent State, shall not be regarded as protected persons while the State of which they are nationals has normal diplomatic representation in the State in whose hands they are.
I don't condone their behavior, but it's certainly understandable, especially when you consider it was only 500 years ago that certain people had their decapitated heads stuck on pikes for the enemy to see.
would you understand it if Nazis took smiley photos next to the bodies of dismembered American soldiers?
I don't believe Americans are Nazis. Do you think Americans are Nazis, Thunder, and that the persecuted Jews are the same as the Taliban?....
why are you bringing up persecuted Jews?
when did I suggest Americans are Nazis?
what are you talking about???????
Meh... do we really care they're pissed off? We're leaving still on schedule....Sure pisses off their countrymen however that we have been trying to win their hearts and minds:
why are you bringing up persecuted Jews?
when did I suggest Americans are Nazis?
what are you talking about???????
I thought you had initially said the Jews. Odd....
...Why do you compare these American soldiers to the Nazis?...
...Our American soldiers are not Nazis, Thunder.
...The Nazis were left wing. Socialists.
I thought you had initially said the Jews. Odd.
Why do you compare these American soldiers to the Nazis? And the dismembered American soldiers in your hypothetical to the Taliban/Al Qaeda?
Our American soldiers are not Nazis, Thunder.
that is a lie.
a pathetic, frequent, ignorant right-wing lie.
...Both Democratic Socialism and Social Democracies have their origins firmly rooted in Nazi economic policy. If you pick at them a little, most of our modern liberals will admit their long term goal is to reform America into a "Social Democracy".
Nazism came from the left, not the right......
(1) that's clearly because you didn't care to actually read the post you responded to.
(2) I made no such comparison. I simply changed the parameters a little, to show the hypocrisy going on here.
(3) I never said they were, Wake. Try reading my post next time.
Dick Durbin compared our soldiers at Gitmo to Nazis......it's a political template.
Please counter or go back to the kitchen....
I have no idea who Dick Durbin is but I think that's another malicious comparison, imho.
Please counter or go back to the kitchen
Both Democratic Socialism and Social Democracies have their origins firmly rooted in Nazi economic policy. If you pick at them a little, most of our modern liberals will admit their long term goal is to reform America into a "Social Democracy".
Nazism came from the left, not the right.
why, did you make me lunch?
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why, did you make me lunch?