Are cell phones illegal in Afghanistan or something? Why would they "hide" cell phones?

I do have to apologize though, for my earlier comments about the physical impossibilities of inserting a grenade.

I did find this: http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Talk/talk.politics.guns/2006-04/msg01250.html

I'm some sort of liar?

-- steveindallas

Yes, we know. We can finally agree on something.

Sheeesh. This joint is a High Chair Pounders Convention. But, I'm a Giver and shall be here to guide you sick, twisted freaks into the light.

If you're going to make promises like that, please do it to the rest of us and not your damned reflection.

Talking to yourself this way is usually a sign of the onset of megalomania.

I have to assume that you either didn't read my earlier comment, or that you have a completely different idea of what it means to be human than I do.

I am assuming by "some water in their sinuses" you are referring to the practice hideously referred to as "waterboarding." I'm sure you know it's not merely putting "some water in [someone's] sinuses," and you think that you're being provocative in this group.

Explain to me, if you can, why torture is any different than rape. Help me understand why one is acceptable behavior for a human being, and why one isn't.

Convince me you don't have an ounce of moral seriousness. Because otherwise: you, Steve in Dallas, are a motherfucking monster.

green refers to $, and the tender age of some of the hookers...someone told me this, I have no idea if it's true...I'm not in the military

Hey this is kind of fun Steve, so keep at it.

Anyway, just wondering - since Jesus was the head of a supposed plot against the state of Israel and potentially the Roman state as well, what you're saying is the Romans were entirely justified in torturing him? After all, any plot of which Jesus might be associated could have led to the deaths of Roman citizens and/or members of the Roman Legions, ergo torture was justified?

I keep harping back to Jesus here because I usually find you (so called) military types are "good Christians".

So, here I go again which you still haven't answered - WWJD?

Even Jack Bauer never had to defuse a ticking vagina.

They tick? So, that's why people look at me funny. . . .Pedinska and bystander, have you two had this issue?

Glenn:

I love your writings. I read them every day. Your task is an honorable one and you do it well. I salute your idealism, your intelligence, and your courage.

Unfortunately, however, you and the rest of us are indeed urinating into a hurricane. Our grand experiment as a constitutional republic has been over since about 1945. It is a failed experiment, killed by human greed. The U.S. devolved into an empire/oligarchy/plutocracy/aristocracy many decades ago. We have now become “The Empire” in the Star Wars movies. Nothing short of an armed rebellion will lead to any substantive change, and Obama is not going to make much difference. And I believe you know that this is true.

Nevertheless, keep fighting the good fight, bra. You’re like a modern-day Oscar Schindler.

I am a centrist. -- steveindallas

"I have no principles. - steveindallas"

There, I fixed it for you.

Just because I post a single 100% TRUE story from the field, and every single poster here chimes in like I'm some sort of liar?

It's so convenient that your story cannot be confirmed or substantiated by anyone but you.

What's your purpose here? Are you simply playing troll or are you trying out ideas for your next script?

P.S. The capital letters are a great touch, just in case anyone doubted your veracity.

Er, I went and looked up, um, some dimensions of, ah, some relevant comparative parts, thought about it for a bit, and promptly fell out of my chair laughing.

Come now. Surely you overlook the ticking tampon. This is serious business, grrl.

steveindallas is illustrating how high-valued detainees are generated by a rumor system that believes in toughness. When pressed for information, we get something he saw on a cruise on the internet and stuck in his mind. Kinda like the way Abu Zubaydah remembered that satirical site where they talked about building nuclear weapons by swinging buckets of yellowcake and clorox around their heads with a rope. Ten by 4 cylinder? So about half the length of a newborn baby, with a cylinder width for the entire length of the cylinder roughly the size of a newborn baby's head? Bye-bye steve, you gullible and read too many stupid comment boards.

But there are some people in Guantanamo and the Navy brig that are suffering honest-to-god torture until they admit to such crap. Paranoia isn't good for you, and anybody can put up a rumor on a comment board. If forced to name something, it will get passed along.

For the edification (!) of all, I did find doing a google search that at least in Columbia, a woman smuggled a grenade into a prison in her, well, you know. (Jack Bauer apparently was not around.)

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&as_q=&as_epq=grenade+in+vagina&as_oq=&as_eq=&num=10&lr=&as_filetype=&ft=i&as_sitesearch=&as_qdr=all&as_rights=&as_occt=any&cr=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&safe=images

Gods, but this is the intellectual high point of Glenn's comments.:)

You have both a son and a brother who have served/are serving in both Afghanistan and Iraq?

My son is in Special Ops, and has served in both Afghanistan and Iraq. (1/15/05)

http://letters.salon.com/news/feature/2009/01/15/friendly_fire/permalink/409deacb27ef20895243241343b2d32e.html

My brother has been deployed with Special Ops in both Irag and Afghanistan...(1/18/09)

http://letters.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/01/18/prosecutions/permalink/ddc7956496af2f263226816a840d2208.html

No, John. That's just a goofy rumor.

Just checked back in for a second. Yours was the only post directed to my comments that wasn't insulting, so I thought I'd answer.