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Jeff - Ain't no love-fest for Dubbya

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Says JeffreyRO5:

"Going to bat for an administration that invaded a foreign country on a pretext, has kidnapped foreigners and spirited them off to a gulag, held for years, looking for ways to keep the Red Cross away, setting up kangaroo courts, and the list goes on. I can hardly believe this is happening under a US government...."


Hm. You don't really know all that much about government conduct in these United States yet, do you?

This is nothing compared to what prior presidential administrations have done, or how American troops have handled even legitimate prisoners of war (much less unlawful combatants and spies) since before the Revolution.

One summer job I had in college saw me working with a man who had served as a helmsman running landing craft in amphibious assaults in the Pacific during World War II. In the course of conversation, I'd learned that he'd been in on the invasion and capture of the causeway-connected islands of Roi-Namur, and asked him why there had been so few Japanese prisoners taken in that operation.

After all, these troops weren't the fanatic SNLF (the "marines" of the Imperial Navy's Special Naval Landing Force) on Tarawa.

He said "Oh, they took plenty of prisoners. They just didn't make it out to the ships.

"We had just gotten word of what had happened to our people who'd surrendered at Bataan - the Death March - and even when the troops took prisoners ashore, we'd take 'em out about halfway from the beach, lower the ramp a little, and machine-gun them off the bow and into the water."

The remarkable thing about the current "War on Terror" is the amazing *restraint* shown by the American military.

You obviously lack the knowledge to apprehend this, and perhaps that's a blessing.

But it does nothing to lend value to your opinions in the matter at hand, I assure you.

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