So you admit that Obama had a hand in creating the debt that he said "wasn\'t me". He lied. End of story. Obama is non stop uh uh uh machine without his teleprompter and his comparison of German POW\'s in England during WWII and 9/11 terrorist detainees was laughable. The Europeans may not have liked Bush\'s aggressive stance, but they respected it. More than I can say they feel about Obama\'s 2009 Apology Tour.
I\'m going to tread lightly here a bit....only because i\'m kinda back and forth on the issue of enemy detainees...i didn\'t see the comparison you speak of, but without even thinking about it, i say we should torture those if it\'s going to force them to release critical information. It\'s a slippery slope tho....if the u.s. are saying we don\'t torture, then we should not be doing it, if we\'re holding ourselves to a higher standard, then we should indeed practice it.
I remember very early in the iraq war when 4 or 5 american soldiers were captured...almost immediately, president bush sent word out to those that captured them, that they better be treated with dignity and respect and that there will be a heavy price to pay if they are harmed otherwise.....eventually the soldiers were released and they stated that while they were a bit freightened, they were fed regulary and generally treated well.
If we\'re tellin\' those guys to treat our soldiers with respect, then in all honesty, we should be practicing what we preach as well. Another thing too can be that maybe only conventional armies honor the no torture declaration...terrorists on the other hand probably don\'t honor anything, so maybe they\'re the exception...i think it still kinda puts our troops in harm way if they\'re captured tho.
