So anyone who drives recklessly, starts a fight, robs a house or causes fear in any way should be convicted for "terrorism and torture"? What about a woman who calls her boyfriend and says "We need to talk...", should she go to prison as a terrorist?

oh wow, great comeback... did someone make you underwear on your head too?...

yes.... women are terrorists, according to the lefties way of thinking...

If I thought you were actually interested instead of just wanting to argue, I may take the time to discuss.....but

I also feel that if you crap your pants and feel like your dying when women talk to ya..maybe ya should just stop talking to women.

I'm not "interested", I was just pointing out the flaws in your logic.

yeah, cuz I care

Of course you don't care if you are illogical, you are a leftist.

Oh to get back on topic.....


President Obama said today that Republican presidential candidates are “wrong” to defend the practice of waterboarding, which he said is torture.

“Waterboarding is torture. It’s contrary to America’s traditions, it’s contrary to our ideals, it’s not who we are, it’s not how we operate,” Obama told reporters at a press conference of the interrogation technique.

Republican Presidential candidates Michele Bachmann and Herman Cain said in a debate Saturday night that they would support the renewed use of waterboarding.

“They’re wrong,” Obama said today. “We did the right thing by ending that practice.”

http://news.yahoo.com/obama-says-gop-candidates-wrong-waterboarding-torture-055753364.html

pathetci isnt it that these young american tortures would even take these photos? its sick, but I can assure you they are not in disupute.

Who cares what a one term, atheist, communist sock puppet has to say?

at least as many people as care about what anyone posting on mingle has to say,,,(or any other public forum, for that matter)

Beginning in 2004, human rights violations in the form of physical, psychological, and sexual abuse, including torture,[1][2][3] rape,[1][2] sodomy,[3] and homicide[4] of prisoners held in the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq (also known as Baghdad Correctional Facility) came to public attention. These acts were committed by military police personnel of the United States Army together with additional US governmental agencies.[5]


Lynndie England holding a leash attached to a prisoner, known to the guards as "Gus", who is lying on the floor
This image of a prisoner being tortured has become famous internationally, eventually making it onto the cover of The Economist (see "Media" below).Revealed in the Taguba Report, an initial criminal investigation by the United States Army Criminal Investigation Command had already been underway, where soldiers of the 320th Military Police Battalion had been charged under the Uniform Code of Military Justice with prisoner abuse. In 2004, articles describing the abuse, including pictures showing military personnel appearing to abuse prisoners, came to public attention, when a 60 Minutes II news report (April 28) and an article by Seymour M. Hersh in The New Yorker magazine (posted online on April 30 and published days later in the May 10 issue) reported the story.[6]

The United States Department of Defense removed seventeen soldiers and officers from duty, and eleven soldiers were charged with dereliction of duty, maltreatment, aggravated assault and battery. Between May 2004 and March 2006, eleven soldiers were convicted in courts martial, sentenced to military prison, and dishonorably discharged from service. Two soldiers, Specialist Charles Graner, and his former fiancée, Specialist Lynndie England, were sentenced to ten years and three years in prison, respectively, in trials ending on January 14, 2005 and September 26, 2005. The commanding officer of all Iraq detention facilities, Brigadier General Janis Karpinski, was reprimanded for dereliction of duty and then demoted to the rank of Colonel on May 5, 2005. Col. Karpinski has denied knowledge of the abuses, claiming that the interrogations were authorized by her superiors and performed by subcontractors, and that she was not even allowed entry into the interrogation rooms.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Ghraib_torture_and_prisoner_abuse

Just the facts Mam

I care

Well, I certainly hope that you don't go around broadcasting that. It will hurt public opinion of your ability to make sound judgements when, in 20-30 years, the next Generation looks back and collectively screams "WHAT WERE YOU THINKING!".

I think we are saying that now about what happened in the last ten years dude.........

IM doubting that will happen, for better or worse

I Really dont think mainstream modern culture or those after it will be doing much to raise generations who will care further than their next computer or video game about much of anything, let alone anything in the PAST,,,,

George Bushes Presidency certainly was not good for the USA, but I think it's clear that his Presidency (however deficient it was) was better than the possible Presidencies offered by his opponents.

Realy? do you think if some criminals in Afghanistan attacked america( if you buy all that) do you think we would have attacked Canada instead?

Oh wow, a truther.

No, we wouldn't have attacked Canada. If Gore had won, we wouldn't have gone to war with Afghanistan either. Gore's mind probably works on the same level as our current President, so he would have apologized for our existence and then he would have offended a couple of our allies.

no I do not

you should not be afraid of your parents to the point you feel terror

but most people are haters so tho I do not agree I do understand

don;t hate


and of course criminal acts - and efforts of self defense are a slightly different matter - a criminal was the terrorist first - but I do believe that efforts to deal with crime should be in the legal framework of equal reaction - in fact that is the law - self defense for those trained may not legally use tactics that exert force to restrain beyond what is needed to restrain/punish

the punishment must fit the crime - to go beyond that is terrorism