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Thursday, 27 May 2004

Pay Attention

Bruce thinks he understood my point but he didn't. I'm not equating America with Saddam Hussein's regime, I'm equating torture with torture. I'm saying an American torturing an Iraqi is no more acceptable than an Iraqi torturing an American. It's not more acceptable because it happened in smaller numbers, it's always unacceptable. Yes, hopefully all the Americans involved will be brought to justice but that doesn't excuse their actions. If you think it's OK to behave that way, then there is something wrong with you. The same thing that's wrong with anyone else who decides it's OK to torture people, including Saddam Hussein.

But then, if you really pay attention, people all over the world are suffering, starving, being tortured, so there's really no point to getting upset about one incident or another. We might as well just go on ignoring each other and sitting in front of our TVs.

Posted: May 27, 2004 09:14

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