yes we should let these soliders die. that is final we never tortured german prisoners in the second world war when we were bing bombed. we never tortured them when we were marching forward against france and knowing were the germans were could have saved thousands of lives.

we just didn't it was totally out of the question. you accepted the fact that you just couldn't do it and you got on with it and accepted the death toll brought on by those rules and morals.

people died for that. but we didn't drop to such a level were we would torture these people. we knew what torturing them could do. it could have saved thousands of lives. but under no circumstances would we have done it. it didn't matter. it was war and people got killed. it wasn't a day out in the park playing football were we could scream "it's not fair". war was there to fight and die in. we refused to drop our morals.

america has dropped theirs. it no longer plays by the moral rules which are right and proper. rules which did not cost us that war and proved to the world who was right and who was wrong (the germans didn't torture pow's either though).

what are we fighting for in iraq if we do not have these morals? freedom? peace? the good? from what? we've replaced one regime were torture was allowed with another were torture is allowed.

what are we to try sadamma with? "mr sadamme it says here you tortured people" "yes that is true but so do the americans" "yes that's true but.......". do you let a theif try a theif? does the rapist judge the rapist? should america judge anyone's human rights record when it admits to torture?

what do we fight for if we are not ourselves moral?