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Reply to Why everyone's not a torturer in Current Events JoeUser Forums

You know, this is exactly why Mr. Rumsfeld called the torture "un-American" (there's another thread about his choice of wording). It's not all Americans doing it, but some people want to speak, think, and act as if it were all Americans. It wasn't every US citizen. It wasn't every US soldier. It wasn't every US soldier in Iraq. It wasn't the majority of US soldiers in Iraq. It wasn't a significant portion o

Reply to From un-American to anti-american in Current Events JoeUser Forums

The word un-American was, IMO, the most appropriate word Mr. Rumsfeld could have chosen. The treatment of Iraqi prisoners by American soldiers was inhuman to be sure. But calling that behavior un-American empasizes how inappropriate it would be to judge all Americans by those despicable acts, in spite of having been committed by Americans. Un-American is a more appropriate term than inhuman because it is unlikely that anyone will choose to de