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- Wed Nov 26, 2008 9:29 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: US Bashing
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Re: US Bashing
I am not in denial. The unorganized torture of prisoners that initially went on was horrific. I am disgusted by my countries ineffectiveness in stopping this and am further humiliated by our efforts to sweep it under the rug. I am not a fan of waterboarding. But, as Chris Rock says, "I understand"....
- Wed Nov 26, 2008 6:59 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: US Bashing
- Replies: 244
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Re: US Bashing
We DON'T torture people. for uncontested evidence see A Note on Sources for American Torture during the Vietnam War p581 in Torture and Democracy Darius M. Rejali Princeton University Press, 2007 ISBN 0691114226, 9780691114224 We all live in glass houses. If you read the book I referenced, you'd di...
- Wed Nov 26, 2008 5:30 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: US Bashing
- Replies: 244
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US Bashing
A little US Bashing from European history... "Für Verrückte, Betrunkene und die Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika hat Gott eine besondere Vorsehung." "God has a special providence for fools, drunks, and the United States of America." Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898) 1st Chancellor of the Second German Em...
- Wed Nov 26, 2008 11:10 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: US Bashing
- Replies: 244
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Back on topic... The world bashes the US for the same reason many here in America bash other Americans. This sounds like a cop out but the media, who are selling advertising, will transmit that which is popular to those who listen. Here's a simple proof....When Britney Spears was going through her ...
Actually I think it was the Poles who designed & built the first bombes (Enigma cracking computers), with GCHQ (the UK's NSA) taking the credit. Good call: http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/content/machines.rhtm http://www.archives.gov/research/alic/reference/military/bletchley-park-visitors-book.htm...
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Brits for the first special purpose computers (crypto). Americans for the General purpose jobs. The first general purpose computer was the Z3 built by Konrad Zuse. It was constructed in Berlin in 1941 and bombed by the Allies in 1943. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z3 http://www.computerhistory.org/t...
- Tue Nov 25, 2008 10:37 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: US Bashing
- Replies: 244
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US Bashing
for uncontested evidence seeTallDave wrote:We DON'T torture people.
A Note on Sources for American Torture during the Vietnam War
p581 in
Torture and Democracy
Darius M. Rejali
Princeton University Press, 2007
ISBN 0691114226, 9780691114224
- Tue Nov 25, 2008 4:46 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: US Bashing
- Replies: 244
- Views: 69258
- Tue Nov 25, 2008 1:34 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: US Bashing
- Replies: 244
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There is a good alternative: battle field interrogations and then shoot any one not in uniform as spies using battle field drum head courts. That eliminates the years of misery problem - put the miscreants out of their misery. Must you be so final in your solutions? Many that live deserve death. An...
- Tue Nov 25, 2008 2:02 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: US Bashing
- Replies: 244
- Views: 69258
US Bashing
My point is that any torture the US has done is mild and very infrequent. I really, really wish you were right, but you're in denial here. Ask some searching questions and you won't like the answers any more than I do. http://www.americantorture.com/the_book.html In Egypt and Iran it is severe and ...
- Mon Nov 24, 2008 7:59 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: US Bashing
- Replies: 244
- Views: 69258
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Just please don't ask us to give America the benefit of the doubt when you lie in the UN about WMDs and torture your prisoners... This is the kind of ignorant slander that makes us wonder why the hell we keep saving the rest of the world from itself. http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/08/19/powell...
- Mon Nov 24, 2008 6:26 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: US Bashing
- Replies: 244
- Views: 69258
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I am only shouting "You owe us" because it is true. We are owed, at the very least, the benefit of the doubt. Everybody takes casualties in war http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I_casualties http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties I know very few people in Europe who aren't gratef...
- Mon Nov 24, 2008 6:10 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: US Bashing
- Replies: 244
- Views: 69258
US Bashing
We have so much more of it to rememberMSimon wrote:BTW the Euros don't know their history.
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English is the manufactured language. It has German and French roots. Spanish additions. A smattering of Yiddish and of course loads of other additions. German? Spanish? Where's your sense of history... ? The people who became known as the English were speaking Frisian (Germanic but definitely not ...
- Thu Nov 20, 2008 10:14 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: FOOD FIGHT Lets beat each other up , Politics is fun.
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FOOD FIGHT Lets beat each other up , Politics is fun.
"Quand il s’agit d’argent, tout le monde est de la même religion." "When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion." Letter to Mme. d'Épinay, Ferney, 26th December 1760 Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet 1694-1778) Oeuvres Complètes de Voltaire: Correspondance (Garnier Frères, Paris...