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IndianaGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-12-05 02:28 AM Original message |
Revealed: UK wartime torture camp |
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ECH1969 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-12-05 02:29 AM Response to Original message |
1. The US had torture camps in WW2 and Vietnam as well |
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psychopomp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-12-05 02:36 AM Response to Reply #1 |
3. What an amazing find, IG |
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JoFerret (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-12-05 06:49 PM Response to Reply #3 |
14. The stakes were high |
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Jackpine Radical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-12-05 09:30 AM Response to Reply #1 |
12. In Vietnam we often delegated torture to Korean and Turkish |
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Kagemusha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-12-05 02:34 AM Response to Original message |
2. There goes "we treated them humanely in WWII" defense. |
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applegrove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-12-05 03:05 AM Response to Reply #2 |
5. Oh no - this was one lot of prisoners overseen by spooks. I've read |
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JoFerret (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-12-05 06:54 PM Response to Reply #5 |
15. POW camps in the UK were well run |
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applegrove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-12-05 07:27 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. Exactly. It was a secretive cabal who broke the laws on torture. As |
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applegrove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-12-05 02:58 AM Response to Original message |
4. We know torture happens. And we know that some creepy spooks |
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IndianaGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-12-05 03:07 AM Response to Reply #4 |
6. How ironic that in Israel, a country that is much maligned on this board |
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ECH1969 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-12-05 03:10 AM Response to Reply #6 |
7. If a US soldier gets captured by the insurgents |
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IndianaGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-12-05 03:13 AM Response to Reply #7 |
8. 90 Senators agreed with you on that! |
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ECH1969 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-12-05 03:16 AM Response to Reply #8 |
10. Nick Burg would not have died if not for Abu Ghreb |
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applegrove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-12-05 03:18 AM Response to Reply #10 |
11. And like Nick's father says.. if the Berg's had not been to peace |
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applegrove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-12-05 03:14 AM Response to Reply #6 |
9. Was a court case the people took to the Supreme Court in 1999 I believe. |
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Nostradamus (124 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-12-05 08:19 PM Response to Reply #6 |
17. Israel DOES torture prisoners |
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applegrove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-13-05 04:33 PM Response to Reply #17 |
23. Like I said - it was 1999 went the public had wind of it and took it to |
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The Stranger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-14-05 07:48 PM Response to Reply #17 |
25. I was very surprised reading that post from Indiana Green. |
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applegrove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-12-05 06:39 PM Response to Reply #4 |
13. Yes - we know that systematic torture give the moral "high grownd" |
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callady (554 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-12-05 10:14 PM Response to Original message |
18. Revealed: UK Wartime Torture Camp (Guardian) |
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GoddessOfGuinness (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-12-05 10:14 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. It's an ages-old pattern |
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merwin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-12-05 10:14 PM Response to Reply #18 |
20. So they're trying to justify torture today by saying |
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callady (554 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-12-05 10:14 PM Response to Reply #20 |
22. But today it's called "abuse" |
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bahrbearian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-12-05 10:14 PM Response to Reply #18 |
21. I didn't know , I quess that makes it O.K now. |
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Omaha Steve (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-14-05 07:38 PM Response to Original message |
24. Second time in a week I have learned... |
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