How do you know if someone is lying? There are many ways, there is body language, pupils dialating and there is going on the track record. That is why information is so valueable, because we can determin what is true and not through the availablity of information.
Currently one of the biggest battles in the political ring we see is on torture and wether the US is doing it. You have this caged match right now going on between Cheaney, Bush and Mcain. It's an all out brawl. Bush says the US doesn't torture, Cheany says the same but is trying to get the CIA full rights to do so, and the you have sen. Mcain ( a former vietnam POW) trying to get the US to adapt a no torture bill in congress.
So how do we know who is telling the truth is just the Bush vs Cheany battle? Because lets face it one says one thing and the other does something diffrent. So we have to look at the track record. Well there is much information on the information we know of from Guatomano (sp) and the know discovered secrect prisions the US is unsing in other countries. I want to focus on one didbit of information....
When the war in Iraq began a promise was made, no napalm would be used. Because as we learned in Vietnam the kill all approach of Napalm kills the innocent more than any kind of fighting assialants. Well in the past few weeks numbers US troops have come out claiming that they were ordered to use white phosphorus which is a chemical weapon, and is a form of Napalm. WHat it does is melt the skin off the body. The troops coming out speaking said they were ordered to use them in the battle in Falluja, which is considered to be where the insurgence began to grow to what it is now.
Many innocent people where killed in Falluja. A recent TV special from italy can be seen here on this issue. Please be aware that the imagery is graphic, as war is.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10907.htm
If you would like some digital reading you can go here:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11020.htm
Now to get back to the past question...if the innocent are killed with no regard I wonder what possible prisoners are treated like?
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side note: This is not an attcak on the US troops. They are following orders, but the leaders who make those orders they need to be brought into the light. No blame can be put on troops. That's like hating the mother working in a sweatshop because it's a sweatshop. The deal makers are the ones needing to be brought to justice.
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