Comments on: Confessions of a Torturer http://www.deadissue.com/archives/2007/03/04/confessions-of-a-torturer/ At home drawing pictures of mountaintops Tue, 17 Jan 2012 13:19:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Al Swearengen http://www.deadissue.com/archives/2007/03/04/confessions-of-a-torturer/comment-page-1/#comment-18758 Al Swearengen Wed, 07 Mar 2007 17:20:05 +0000 http://deadissue.com/archives/2007/03/04/confessions-of-a-torturer/#comment-18758 This is territory we've run over again, it seems, whenever frodo reappears...and before the bell rings, understand that in order to remain a believer at this point requires an enormous amount of faith. The most rigidly faithful of any group of people, focusing on one idea, will always produce a sense of us and them, with each passing week/month/year the signs point opposite of the direction faith has forced them to travel. So it becomes the story of Job, only updated to where it's not only this one man's family, livestock and home are destroyed for the sake of settling a bet, but hundreds of thousands of lives. Gambled on an idea, the ones most affected by our occupation, would overwhelmingly decide that the idea itself was shit to begin with. These factors will never faze a gambler playing with the last bit of credit left in his name, as the citing of how much has been bet into the pot already as justification for throwing what's left in as well. A tire fire is what it is. But frodo will attempt to bring the debate to abstract nonsense like the psychology of millions of other people at a specific time. Just like that he can close his eyes and gauge within seconds, the collective level of hope inside the hearts and minds of liberals everywhere that their wish will finally come true, that we lose wars. He can tell what you are thinking right now. He already knows whether or not you're hoping the US becomes a third world country. How else could you deny the obvious reason for disagreeing with someone as faithful as frodo? What it comes down to is a comparison of character, and if you're not believing the lies on Iraq you hate your country. This is territory we’ve run over again, it seems, whenever frodo reappears…and before the bell rings, understand that in order to remain a believer at this point requires an enormous amount of faith. The most rigidly faithful of any group of people, focusing on one idea, will always produce a sense of us and them, with each passing week/month/year the signs point opposite of the direction faith has forced them to travel.

So it becomes the story of Job, only updated to where it’s not only this one man’s family, livestock and home are destroyed for the sake of settling a bet, but hundreds of thousands of lives. Gambled on an idea, the ones most affected by our occupation, would overwhelmingly decide that the idea itself was shit to begin with.

These factors will never faze a gambler playing with the last bit of credit left in his name, as the citing of how much has been bet into the pot already as justification for throwing what’s left in as well.

A tire fire is what it is. But frodo will attempt to bring the debate to abstract nonsense like the psychology of millions of other people at a specific time. Just like that he can close his eyes and gauge within seconds, the collective level of hope inside the hearts and minds of liberals everywhere that their wish will finally come true, that we lose wars.

He can tell what you are thinking right now. He already knows whether or not you’re hoping the US becomes a third world country.

How else could you deny the obvious reason for disagreeing with someone as faithful as frodo? What it comes down to is a comparison of character, and if you’re not believing the lies on Iraq you hate your country.

]]> By: Jim http://www.deadissue.com/archives/2007/03/04/confessions-of-a-torturer/comment-page-1/#comment-18750 Jim Wed, 07 Mar 2007 16:07:31 +0000 http://deadissue.com/archives/2007/03/04/confessions-of-a-torturer/#comment-18750 OK Frodo, I'll bite. Who wants it to fail? OK Frodo, I’ll bite. Who wants it to fail?

]]> By: Frodo http://www.deadissue.com/archives/2007/03/04/confessions-of-a-torturer/comment-page-1/#comment-18747 Frodo Wed, 07 Mar 2007 15:22:18 +0000 http://deadissue.com/archives/2007/03/04/confessions-of-a-torturer/#comment-18747 Finally some good reporting from Iraq. Sounds like a quagmire to me. http://asecondhandconjecture.com/?p=576 Why does everyone want it to fail. I really do not get that. Finally some good reporting from Iraq.
Sounds like a quagmire to me.

http://asecondhandconjecture.com/?p=576

Why does everyone want it to fail. I really do not get that.

]]> By: Hal Kimball http://www.deadissue.com/archives/2007/03/04/confessions-of-a-torturer/comment-page-1/#comment-18732 Hal Kimball Tue, 06 Mar 2007 18:10:55 +0000 http://deadissue.com/archives/2007/03/04/confessions-of-a-torturer/#comment-18732 Wow, sounds like Vietnam all over again, making up numbers for suit the brass. WTF. Great find! Wow, sounds like Vietnam all over again, making up numbers for suit the brass. WTF.

Great find!

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