A rather interesting discussion has been going on behind the scenes here at MyMac. It has involved the issue of how Saddam Hussein is questioned and whether it constitutes torture. Some of my fellow MyMac writers feel that waking Saddam every two hours for questioning sometimes for a minute, other times for hours to disorient him. Playing rap music loud along with other non -physically irritating actions is torture. They point to the idea that Americans should take the highest possible road. That we wouldn’t want our soldiers treated in this way.
Well, I’d rather have our soldiers treated in this fashion than the physical torture that Hussein’s henchmen delivered upon our POW’s in the Gulf War. These brave “normal” people endured vicious beatings, mock castrations, mock executions, etc.. The linked article is just a hint at what our POW’s faced.
Their is a huge difference in our treatment of Saddam versus his treatment of our soldiers, or the tens of thousands of missing Iranian and Kuwaiti men. Talk to any POW from WWII, Korea, or Vietnam and they will tell you the sobering truth; Saddam is getting off easy, very easy. The rest of the world considers us to be softies and way too nice in our interrogations. It’s time to accept the truth, our standards for interrogation are far above those of any military nation on the planet.
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