re: #174 talon_262

Unfortunately, I’d have to agree, in regards to some points of national security. In some ways, we have indeed become what we hated, which irks me.

Not at all. What happened at Abu Ghraib was an absolute disgusting shame (you should have heard my husband, who is a military officer…well, maybe not, because his response was kinda profane), but was the result of GW Bush and Rumsfeld’s decision to go into Iraq with poorly trained and properly screened National Guardsmen from backwoods West Virginia … if Bush had actually meant the stuff he said (lots of it true) that the Clinton cuts to the active duty force level were too severe, and that the military needed some repairs/rebuilding….oh well. Instead they sent them to 2 war zones, and … sigh.

But our military guys aren’t fond of the extreme “enhanced interrogation” methods because, as McCain said, the info is of dubious value; also, our guys are out on the front lines, and facing inhuman treatment if caught. There’s lots of examples, but the way the guys (Blackwater or something?) were strung up and burned in Fallujah kinda makes the point—we just don’t think that’s cool.

And I’ve heard exactly ZERO actual active duty military members calling for the release of the pics of deceased OBL, and ZERO of the “Obama’s a wimp, shoulda beheaded him and pissed down his spine” or whatever crapola.