Pineguy wrote: OK, some people have chosen to take this to a personal level, including names and employment, which I believe is against the terms of service, so I am withdrawing from this debate.
Are you surprised considering who you were arguing with?
Personally I am not too worried about the simple release of the documents. I think people should know what is going on.
I don't like the spin. NPR this morning was running with the Iraqi torture stories this morning. Saying our troops were refusing to stop the Iraqi's from tormenting captives. Isn't it their country and their right to rule? The Iraqis hung Saddam and should control their prisoners, no matter how brutal they are.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
It remains unthinkable! Why would anyone condone the efforts a few terribly misguided people, by offering support to their cause? WikiLeaks' efforts are as ill conceived as anything that has yet to surface in our history.
Even the efforts of John Kerry, in his Anti-Viet Nam War propaganda stunt, which eventually caused the death of thousands of Viet Namese and Cambodians, was not quite this ill-conceived.
Pineguy wrote: OK, some people have chosen to take this to a personal level, including names and employment, which I believe is against the terms of service, so I am withdrawing from this debate.
Are you surprised considering who you were arguing with?
She doesn't play by the same rules she preaches.
Ahhh...you must have missed the apology and the self edit.
You must still be doing the dirty laundry bit!
(edited to add. I have a certain amount of self control and don't have to be told to behave. ************************
good of you to apologize becky and to fix your post - considering the idiot who was yanking yours and everyone's chain. *****************************************************
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