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Why I think we should get over it:
Our military's rules outlaw behavior like the behavior those people are accused of. The Geneva Conventions are pretty clear that you can't go around torturing people, physically OR mentally. We adhere to the Geneva Conventions, officially. No one in our military thinks that the things that happened in those prisons are acceptable. People are being rounded up and court-marshalled. Everyone from the President himself straight down to the military leaders have publically apologized, repeatedly. There's apparently a world-wide investigation going on now, not just in Iraq but in every military prison, and there's now enough public scrutiny that nothing is going to get by anyone. The problem is in the process of being corrected; whoever was to fault will be done away with. It's a bad thing that happened, but I'm satisfied that it's in the process of being fixed, and I don't feel the need to keep bringing it up every couple minutes. What more do they need to do to satisfy people? Burn Rumsfeld at the stake?
Like I said, there are FAR worse things going on every single day down the street from me. There are also people being exploded by bombs all over the Middle East on a daily basis. There are countries whose OFFICIAL policy is to do far worse things than most of us can imagine, on a daily basis. The US military are not the bad guys here. I think there are bigger problems to worry about in the world.
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