If torture is OK, why did we go after Saddam Hussein for doing it?

[BlueEyedSon]

Seems to me the thing that is getting tortured the most right now is LOGIC.

[babylonsister]

1. GREAT question! nt

[MadMaddie]

2. See there you go using that there "Logic" you know that

ain't allowed during these times!!:sarcasm:


Great Question!!

[MrCoffee]

3. stop making sense.

[BlueEyedSon]

8. Same as it ever was....

[El Fuego]

4. It's only OK when WE do it, like terrorism.

[OneBlueSky]

12. right . . . because we're so good and virtuous and only torture . . .

bad guys . . .

[bryant69]

5. That is agood question

Not one I expect to be asked.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[wisteria]

6. I have been thinking that also. Why is it ok when we do it ,

yet it is not ok for other governments to do the same thing. Bush is no better than Saddam in regards to human rights if this passes.

[filer]

13. We're different from them.

We're good and they're evil.

We only humanely torture the undeniably guilty in the interest of saving Americans. Besides it's not torture, it's aggressive interrogation. Americans don't torture. No...never!

[Bjorn Against]

30. I hope that is sarcasm

Because if you really believe a thing you just said you really don't know much about what is going on in the world.

[filer]

31. Hope this clarifies.

:sarcasm: I hope this works. I've never tried the "sarcasm" thing before. If I believed anything I wrote, I'd be a Republican. I'm trying one of the smiley things now. :-) Cool! It works!

[Hugin]

7. It wasn't okay then...

But, now it's okay.

Got it?

:crazy:

[SledDriver]

9. IOKIYAAR

[zbdent]

10. Caller on a local station stated it perfectly ... Bush and company don't

want information ... they're torturing people to get them to say anything to stop the torture ... like, say, "Iraq had WMDs" and swearing on a statement that person X was in a terrorist camp (despite never being anywhere near point X) - can you say "secret evidence" not to be seen by the defense?

[valerief]

11. The answer will be that we went after Saddam because

we had bad intelligence on WMD. LIES.

[SammyWinstonJack]

14. A question for lurking FReeps.

Care to answer?

[Jack Rabbit]

15. It's not torture when Bush approves it

Now does it make sense?

[helderheid]

16. Ta da! You are right on

[Quiet_Dem_Mom]

17. And: If torture is so effective, why didn't we use it ON Hussein?

After all, he was an imminent threat according to *.

:shrug: Logic/truth is an endangered species in this administration.

[ProgressiveEconomist]

18. What a great question! I'd like to hear our most telegenic Democratic

Senators speak on that subject for several six-hour shifts apiece, in a filibuster this week.

[Bluerthanblue]

19. you just don't get it I guess, it's

so simple, ya gotta remember this is the guy who tried to kill *'s dad-

We won't talk about what was done to Saddam's sons and grandson. Nor will we discuss the 'rape rooms'- (another * buzz word-) or the fact that he (Saddam) has absolutely no respect for human life- and WE DO, as long as the human lives are ones we can use to manipulate people to 'our cause'-


heavy duty
:sarcasm:

Wonder if asking questions such as yours, ones which expose the hypocrisy and bullcrap being spoon fed the numbed masses, will put you at risk of being 'detained' as an 'enemy combatant' in the not so distant future.... Absolute power ya know-

[SeattleVet]

20. I'm stealing that to use as a new .sig line on my email accounts!

"If torture is OK, why did we go after Saddam Hussein for doing it?"

[Generator]

21. You don't understand

Saddamn Hussein was COMPETITION for Bush. He had to go. (He tried to kill his dad too-that couldn't stand you know!) Secretly, he took many notes on how to keep an upity country under control. It worked for Saddam! That's Bush's motto. He even had like 99% of the country vote for him!

[Tesha]

22. That was bad torture. We only use good torture. (NT)

[progressoid]

23. DOH! You libruls weren't spossed to figger that out!

[sandnsea]

24. Because we're just "interrogating"

You silly goose.

Seriously, that's what most people believe. We're just codifying happy little interrogation processes, not legalizing torture.

[BlueStater]

25. Because people died when Saddam did it

That's the difference between us and him.:eyes:

[BlueEyedSon]

27. Uh...... oops!

[happydreams]

28. Whew!! Is that the Iraqi general who was murdered while in

custody of US forces????

That soldier smiling has to be one warped piece of SHIT!!

[City Lights]

26. We were against torture before we were for it.

:crazy:

[happydreams]

29. K&R! That is a great question to get a dead brain working.

[leftchick]

32. the difference...

our fucking useless lawmakers are making it LEGAL for bush to torture. Apparently it was illegal when saddam was in power.

:puke:

[cassiepriam]

33. Because he was not diverting the Iraqi treasury to Halliburton. nt

[seabeyond]

34. the last excuse to fight iraq, down the rabbit whole n/t

[Javaman]

35. Bacause according to morons* logic, saddam didn't do it right. nt