Trent Lott on the torture!

[neverborn]

I am truly disgusted to report today that Phase 4 has now been reached. Here are the words of the Republican chairman of the Senate Rules Committee, Trent Lott:

"Frankly, to save some American troops' lives or a unit that could be in danger, I think you should get really rough with them," Lott said. "Some of those people should probably not be in prisons in the first place."

When asked about the photo showing a prisoner being threatened with a dog, Lott was unmoved. "Nothing wrong with holding a dog up there unless it ate him," Lott said. "(They just) scared him with the dog."

Lott was reminded that at least one prisoner had died at the hands of his captors after a beating. "This is not Sunday school," he said. "This is interrogation. This is rough stuff."

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2004_05/004007.php

[Walt Starr]

1. Yep, the propogandists are getting the American Public to accept

War crimes as something normal.

This is the Nazification of America.

[arcane1]

2. and we are next

torture of innocent Iraqis will de-sensitize them to torture of American librul "traitors"

:puke:

[sui generis]

11. but then listen to these guys

when one of our soldiers gets captured and beaten by the other side or some civilian gets picked up and beheaded (which is relatively humane compared to taking days to die from a beating) -- my gawd they go into orbit!

Not only is it okay to torture, but it is only okay for "us" to torture. Everyone else doing it is just barbaric.

[keithyboy]

19. Pretty soon they will convice us that it is ok to converge on them an beat

shit out them if we catch them in public. After a while we all become desenitized to wrong-doing.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

3. Trent Lott is a distant relative to Hitler!

:puke:

[Timefortruth]

4. They really hate everything good about America.

How much more clearly could he say it?

[shoelace414]

5. Dog

I thought it was shown that the Dog picture has more pictures after it.. after the guy was mauled by the dog.

[Bandit]

6. Why didn't we feel this way during the Second World War?

We were a humane country back then. They are no more dangerous now then they were back then and maybe even less so. Hell they aren't even soldiers now. Just civilians most of which are innocent bystanders.

[Burma Jones]

7. Welllll, down in Mississippi, they know how to use Dogs, don't they?

[rucky]

8. Hey Lott, my neighbor's Rottweiler would love to meat - er - meet you. n/t

[MisterP]

12. I can just imagine my Lily running off with his hair, chasing it

and then running behind something to chew on it

[CulturalNomad]

9. truly, truly horrified - now i understand why this govt preaches

perpetual war - its a guaranteed license for any depraved act....

[sui generis]

10. who are these people?

well, one thing about sanity, is that normal is not the norm. I have a pet theory that many sociopaths are republican, woops, I mean, many republicans are sociopaths.

"by definition, a sociopath has no conscience, no concept or even capacity for true compassion"

from FreeDictionary.com:

Noun 1. sociopathic personality - a personality disorder characterized by amorality and lack of affect; capable of violent acts without guilt feelings (`psychopathic personality' was once widely used but was superseded by `sociopathic personality' to indicate the social aspects of the disorder, but now `antisocial personality disorder' is the preferred term).

[ignatius]

13. Hey, they are just brown people,and we know Trent's "feelings"

on dark people.

If he is a picture of the "master" race, I hope God destroyed all negatives.

[russian33]

14. Looking at Trent Lott is torture...

..or should be qualified as such

[Hubert Flottz]

15. Trent Lott is a Neo-Nazi!

Like Prescott Bush!

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

16. Probably brings back fond memories for ol' Trent.

Dogs, torture, throw in a a couple of Mint Julips and a magnolia tree with a rope attached and he'd feel right at home. Add a rendition of "Dixie" in the background and he'd get downright weepy.

[seabeyond]

17. then what is the deal with beheading a mere

one two/minutes of pain for their cause they believe strongly in to save their people from the horrors of americans opposed to hours of beating adn causing pain til death cause we want information to save lives.

torture begets torture. tough stuff

[killbotfactory]

18. Yeah, being sodomized, beaten, covered in shit...

and then forced to renounce their religion. No big deal, quit yer bitchin' you no-good do-gooder bleeding heart libruls.

[daleo]

20. Is he advocating murder? Disappearing?

"Some of those people should probably not be in prisons in the first place."

No wonder these types felt comfortable with Pinochet. And he is a chairman of something called a Rules Committee?