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"So when do you write your article about the IRAQI TORTURE HOUSES????"
You mean like Abu Ghraib under the administration of the Bushit criminal enterprise? Under George "Toturer-in-Cheif" Bushit? Under the National Security Council's "Principals" Committee, chaired by Condi "We Don't Torture" Rice? And with as member the fake hero Colin Powell, who greatly assisted in lying the US into illegally invading and occupying a non-threatening soverign nation -- thus knowingly threw the lives of his toops away for nothing?
"You have no problem going on and on about the atrocities committed by a very small minority of US soldiers, . . . ."
To which "small minority of soldiers" do you refer? The US troops at Abu Ghraib who obeyed the orders to commit the war crime of torture? (You couldn't be referring to 99.99 per cent of the Bushit criminal enterprise, who are chickenhawks who have never been near, let alone in, a uniform.)
That reported about in the article?
The US troops who coimmitted the "Haditha Massacre," which included the gang rape, murder, and burning of the body of a 14-year-old girl?
Or those not yet discovered and reported?
". . . but when do you talk about the 100 times worse things that some of the insurgents are doing?"
The military itself reports that over 90 per cent of the "insurgents" are Iraqis fighting for the liberation of their country from its illegal occupation by the US. The Foundewrs/Framers of the US were "insurgents" who behaved in exactly the ame way.
"When do you ever speak out about the videotaped beheadings?"
When do you ever look at the timelines and learn that such beheadings began to occur AFTER the Abu Ghraib tortures became known.
It isn't complicated -- so even dumbass Bushit dead-enders such as you can "get it": When the US tortures others, those others are all the more likely to engage in torture. And when that happens, the US has no grounds on which to stand and complain about torture.
". . . . How about BLOWING UP CHILDREN ON PURPOSE???"
See "Haditha Massacre". See "My Lai Massacre". Both committed by the US. One in Iraq, one in Vietnam.
"It seems like only the US can do wrong. Ignore the absolutely horrible stuff going on by the other side. It's "cool" to hate America."
Both sides do wrong. But the Iraqi insurgents have the right to be in their country, and to fight for its liberation from illegal occupation by the US.
The US has no such rights in Iraq.
And: two wrongs don't make a right, despite your view that: torture is wrong, therefore we will torture ALLEGED torturers in order to reduce the amount of torture that is occurring.
"You rail FoxNews about being "Fair and Balanced", but you're a hypocrite when you don't even attempt to be yourselves."
The article is FACT, and balanced, ass. Fox's FAKE "news" is not FACT -- it is confabulated, made-up extremist right-wing Republican propaganda. LEARN THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN FACT AND LIE, TRUTH AND LIE. AND THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN NEWS, ON ONE HAND, AND POLITICAL PROPAGANDA, ON THE OTHER.
"-- kufir77 Friday, May 9, 2008 08:25 AM"
This much is absolutely clear about Bushit criminal enterprise dead-enders: if they like what they hear, it is propaganda, but they call it "news". When it is fact, and truthful, and they don't like it, they call it "liberal" "bias".
They are, in a word, intellectually dishonest. LIARS who put party before country and rule of law, lie before truth. All that matters to them is getting their way, and they have no moral, ethical or legal concern about how they get their way and get what they want.
And most of them are too funtionally illiterate to understand even those basic facts.
