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The suppressed fact: Deaths by U.S. torture

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  • Tuesday, June 30, 2009 09:51 AM

    death in war is not murder in peacetime

    or even justifiable homicide (police killings). otherwise all the deaths of the innocent would be negligent homicide. The war itself was fraudulent, justified by trickery. Nevertheless once it started, it was war. The soldiers whose comrades were killed by roadside bombs can be forgiven not loving their enemies. Some were told to roughly interrogate prisoners and by chance or spite, killed a hundred. it's best to, as jesus said, let the dead bury the dead. Leave it be. Let it heal. We did worse in Vietnam - through torture deaths and plain old ordinary burning - over two million innocent deaths. They forgive us. why? We let them. Let's let the Iraqis forgive us. We didn't exterminate them or even try. Let it go.

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