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Re:Judge sentences Bradley Manning to 35 years by zeteo on Wednesday August 21, 2013 @05:46PM (#6253511)
>You likely have no idea how Americans are treated by the Taliban and Al Q when they're captured [... T]he guys in Abu were fighting on the same side as the guys that beheaded Daniel Pearl. [... I]f the US soldiers at Abu had shot those prisoners on the battlefield, nobody would have complained, but they put underwear on their heads and the world freaks the hell out

Your obsession with terrorists' lack of scruples is causing you to become what you hate. You think it's OK to humiliate and torture them because they're terrorists, they think it's OK to behead us because of religion and nationality. How about a little show of strength and dealing with them without lowering to their level?

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Re:Judge sentences Bradley Manning to 35 years by smsm42 on Thursday August 22, 2013 @02:52AM (#6255541)
>>> Your obsession with terrorists' lack of scruples is causing you to become what you hate

Did it? Did he already cut off people's heads, blow up markets and issued fatwas calling for murdering infidels? Or did he just express an opinion that maybe war prisoner abuse, while being undeniably bad, is not the same as murdering innocent people or perpetrating genocide? If in your eyes that makes one the same as terrorist, your priorities are seriously messed up.

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Re:Judge sentences Bradley Manning to 35 years by mpyne on Wednesday August 21, 2013 @07:47PM (#6254074)
They didn't say it was OK to humiliate or torture people, so stop drawing your own conclusion on that please. They said it was not morally equivalent to an actual war crime, especially the kind that got people put in the dock at Nürnberg.
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