torture an iraqi prisoner???

[Bill Fisher]

A Texan's opinion ..........



T. B. Bechtel, a part-time City Councilman from Midland, TX, was asked on a local live radio talk show, just what he thought of the allegations of torture of the Iraqi prisoners. His reply prompted his ejection from the studio, but to thunderous applause from the audience.

"If hooking up an Iraqi prisoner's balls to a car's battery cables will save one Texas GI's life, then I have just three things to say,............ "Red is positive",... "Black is negative",........ and "Make sure his balls are wet!"

[lite-liner]

can I getta AMEN on that, y'all?

[TeamOso]

not only was that an appropiate answer it was also very cunning!!!

[crazyjigr]

U got to love texas!

[lite-liner]

Not what I meant, Kev. Nothing to do w/ religious preference.
just want to start seeing justice.
Waterboarding wouldn't be necessary if they hadn't f**ked with us...

[Pope]

If it were saving GIs, it would be fine. I wonder how many people became even more motivated to kill more GIs after to torture was exposed in Iraq?

Waterboarding a detained Al Queda operative to divert an attack, has Pope's seal of approval. Torturing a run of the mill shithead for the sake of revenge doesn't. IMHO What gain is there? Most of the people they were abusing in Abu Grave were low level "nothings" and the torture was just fun for the guards. Created more problems. Again, IMHO

[Bill Fisher]

didn't mean to be controversial with that....... i just got a kick outta what HE thot about 'the-ends-justifies-the-means'

and as-far-as torture being exposed???........ if i remember right, saddam insane's torture chambers were exposed first

and yes, it's not right to torture just for the sake of torturing in the name of revenge (although i think extenuating circumstance might apply in some cases) but i would hope to think we all agree that when battling an enemy that would use such tactics that a turnabout-of-fairplay is warranted (or at least somewhat justified)

maybe...........maybe not........

butcha gotta wonder....... what good is setting rules of war if no one is gonna abide by those rules?

imo, too deep o'subject to hash out on a fishing board........ kinda sorry i brot it up

i only posted it because i found some humor in it..... (i'm sorta wierd that way)

[Bill Fisher]

another reason i gotta kick out've it is because of a post made by a member of a private board i have and i thot that would a good tag-along................

here's the post:

THE LARK PROGRAM

A Lady wrote a lot of letters to the White House complaining about the treatment of captive insurgents (terrorists) being held in Guantanamo Bay. She received the following reply:

The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, D.C. 20016

Dear Concerned Citizen,

Thank you for your recent letter roundly criticizing our treatment of the Taliban and Al Quaida detainees currently being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Our administration takes these matters seriously and your opinion was heard loud and clear here in Washington.

You'll be pleased to learn that, thanks to the concerns of citizens like yourself, we are creating a new division of the Terrorist Retraining Program, to be called the "Liberals Accept Responsibility for Killers" program, or LARK for short.

In accordance with the guidelines of this new program, we have decided to place one terrorist under your personal care. Your personal detainee has been selected and scheduled for transportation under heavily armed guard to your residence next Monday.

Ali Mohammed Ahmed bin Mahmud (you can just call him Ahmed) is to be cared for pursuant to the standards you personally demanded In your letter of complaint. It will likely be necessary for you to hire some assistant caretakers. We will conduct weekly inspections to ensure that your standards of care for Ahmed are commensurate with those you so strongly recommended in your letter.

Although Ahmed is a sociopath and extremely violent, we hope that your sensitivity to what you described as his "attitudinal problem" will help him overcome these character flaws. Perhaps you are correct in describing these problems as mere cultural differences. We understand that you plan to offer counseling and home schooling.

Your adopted terrorist is extremely proficient in hand-to-hand combat and can extinguish human life with such simple items as a pencil or nail clippers. We advise that you do not ask him to demonstrate these skills at your next yoga group. He is also expert at making a wide variety of explosive devices from common household products, so you may wish to keep those items locked up, unless (in your opinion) this might offend him.

Ahmed will not wish to interact with you or your daughters (except sexually), since he views all females as a subhuman form of property. This is a particularly sensitive subject for him and he has been known to show violent tendencies around women who fail to comply with the new dress code that he will recommend as more appropriate attire. I'm sure you will come to enjoy the anonymity offered by the Burka over time.

Just remember that it is all part of "respecting his culture and his religious beliefs." Wasn't that how you put it?

Thanks again for your letter. We truly appreciate it when folks like you keep us informed of the proper way to do our job. You take good care of Ahmed and remember, we'll be watching.

Good luck!

Cordially, your friend,

GEORGE W. BUSH

[lite-liner]

yep!

[jaredchasteen]

Billfisher,


That is some funny sh**