I am sorry this has happened to you. You are right, you should not be there. This is an Iraqi fight. But still. "Subhuman pieces of shit"??? Bruce. I know you are being shot at and I know you are under unimaginable stress, but I cannot begin to tell you how horrible that sounds.
As for interrogation techniques, apparently Abu Zubaydah gave up Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to the FBI interrogator *before* the CIA took custody of him and waterboarded him 83 times. Eighty-three. http://www.newsweek.com/id/195089 On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 9:24 AM, Bruce Sorge <[email protected]> wrote: > > Whatever. I used to have some empathy for these people, but no more. I > hate every one of these sub-human pieces of shit. All they do is sit > around waiting to see how many of us are going to get shot or killed, > and when they are not doing that they are busy breeding like flies. We > need to just leave this place and let them fight it out for themselves. > We did our part, we got rid of their dictator Saddam. They have a > democratically elected government. Let them figure out how to make it > work just as we did back in the day. There is nothing else for us to do > here but drive and walk around and wait for our day to be killed or > wounded. A couple of weeks ago we had a 100 lb claymore go off. By some > miracle, guys who were no more than 10 feet away from it survived with > nothing more than a concussion. When we asked some Iraqi Police who were > obviously using their cell phones on a rooftop the moment of the > explosion, all they could say is they did not hear anything (they were > no more than 75 meters away from the blast) and that they were asleep, > even though our guys on the ground had eyes on them seeing that they > were awake. When we took their cell phone away from the guy who was busy > erasing the numbers he called, we were told to give it back to him > because we are not allowed to harass the police here. Fuck them. They > know exactly what is going on. They were probably the trigger man for > all we know. This is what happens when you have reporters who get to > follow us around and then politicians who decry our tactics and tell us > we have to play nice. Tell you what, let these bastards don some body > armor and walk around here getting blown up and shot at and then tell > them they cannot do anything because we have to play nice with these > animals. I think that they might have a change of heart. > > And yes, go ahead and whine to your congressman about me. See if I care? > Nothing will come of it. They will not kick me out. Worst case scenario > is I get to talk to the head shrinker's here and get some feel good > pills to make me not feel so angry, then send me back into the war. > Either way I do not care, I still get paid the same and I still get to > go home in two months to get married and live a happy peaceful life > with my new wife. I will carry a gun for the next seven or eight years > until I retire and move OUT of the USA. And I will be deployed again, a > few more times. > > Judah McAuley wrote: >> >> They'll get over it? WTF. >> >> You're saying that if we torture an innocent guy, he'll just get over >> it and oh well. >> >> Dude, I don't want you in the military. I want you as far away as >> humanly possible from anything that remotely puts you in a place of >> potential power over another human being because you seem to have lost >> an important bit of humanity. Is there a place I can go to request >> that they not let you represent my country abroad and certainly not >> let you carry a gun? This shit scares me. >> >> Judah >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:297439 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
