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Friday, May 9, 2008 12:00 AM

Killing by the numbers

In 2007 elite U.S. snipers executed an unarmed Iraqi prisoner in cold blood. Have the insidious tactics that led to atrocities in Vietnam reemerged in Iraq?

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  • Saturday, May 10, 2008 01:51 PM

    Thanks for the usual name-calling in effort to distract from the issue --

    "Killing by the numbers!

    "Sorry, but I always suspect the factuality of Salon printed stories. Knowing how far left leaning and the overall hate of President Bush, and I might add any Republican, the more I question the stories I read. I can see what left wing propaganda has been doing to the Palestine children from birth. I can see left leaning editorialists in left leaning newspapers and major news broadcast networks pump out. I might add liberalism taught to young college students, etc. I think the salon article that left the greatest impression on me was one last winter where a writer was lambasting Democrats for appearing on the Fox News Network. That coming from a group that claims they believe in freedom of speech, took the cake. Put that in your left wing bias and like they say "smoke it!"."

    Torture is a war crime. That is the law, not a "liberal" position.

    Torture cannot be made legal. That is the law, not a "liberal" position.

    Even the EFFORT to make torture legal is illegal. That is the law -- as adopted by a REPUBLICAN Congress -- not a 'liberal" position.

    A criticism of Democrats for appearing on the Republican propaganda mill Fox is not an attack on freedom of speech. It is a questioning of the judgment of those who would lend credibility to Fox as being something other than the sewer of lies and liars it has all along been.

    "-- morefunky Friday, May 9, 2008 12:36 PM"

    Learn to think, or continue to behave irresponsibly by putting party before country and rule of law. Learn to think, or continue to prefer false proaganda and lies to fact and truth.

    The fact is that those soldiers did as reported. That is not a "liberal" position. Though perhaps it IS a "liberal" position to prefer and tell the truth, instead of pretending that intellectual dishonesty, lying, and defending and committing war crimes are patriotic.

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