From: qqqq@7600.net   
      
   Nadacomin wrote:   
   > In between WORKING FOR A LIVING, I have caught parts of news broadcasts in   
   > which the whining about how poor ol Saddam is being humiliated by the US.   
   > They are referring to his "homeless man" photos, and, film footage of his   
   > medical examination that was broadcast.   
   > I guess some bigshot priest has been whining loudly about this.   
   > As I post, there is some asshole on Fox news ( Am I a Nazi because I watch   
   fox   
   > news?) whining about it.   
   > I could understand if they broadcast photos of the doctor ramming a   
   thermometer   
   > or other instrument up his nasty ass, or, having him lift his nuts.   
   > Saddam is a nasty motherfucker, and, I think the videos of his sorry ass   
   make a   
   > good propaganda coup for our side.   
   > And, I think that anyone who whines about his treatment needs a good swift   
   kick   
   > in the ass, with a steel toed work boot.   
      
      
   All true, as judged from a neutral point of view.  Saddam did   
   some horrible things.  Any unbiased value judgement would put   
   him in one of the lowest ranks of the evil.   
      
   Trouble is, when you base international standards of treatment   
   on value judgements, it all quickly breaks down into a squabbling   
   match over whose judgement counts.  That's why we have things like   
   the Geneva convention, which specify conditions for treatment of   
   ALL prisoners of war, by ALL sides.  Otherwise, what would have   
   kept the Germans from expecting the best treatment by us for   
   their fine, purebred Aryan defenders of the Fatherland, while   
   according our mongrel swine GI's treatment you wouldn't give   
   a dog.  Well, that would have been their value judgement at   
   least, and they'd surely have stuck by it.  We'd have had a   
   hard time arguing them out of it on a value judgement basis alone.   
      
   That's why there have to be no exceptions.  I predict we will   
   learn a very hard lesson in the future when we appeal to an   
   enemy to abide by international law in treating our prisoners,   
   and find it thrown back in our faces that we didn't do the same   
   in the past.  Our protests of "but those were special cases,   
   THEY didn't deserve good treatment" will fall on very deaf ears.   
      
   And they will give OUR whiners, who complain about them torturing   
   OUR GI's, a good swift kick in their collective ass with a steel-   
   toed work boot.  It will feel a lot different then, when the   
   steel-toed work boot is, so to speak, on the other foot.  But   
   it will be too late, and we will have to live with the consequences   
   of our own actions, something Americans are historically not   
   very good at.   
      
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