Comments on: New Polls Indicate Republicans Favor Torture, Gulags

By: bluebutterfly

bluebutterfly — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 05:55:53 +0000

The rewards given were/are not always monetary. The following is from March 2004.
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The bill, a result of Kirk’s recent mission to Afghanistan and Pakistan, is intended to help the U.S. military and operations like “Mountain Storm” to capture or kill terrorists. The bill also expands the eligibility criteria to receive an award, authorizes non-monetary awards and focuses on increased advertising of the reward available for the capture of Usama Bin Laden.

“Our bill will give the State Department more flexibility in the types of rewards it gives,” said Kirk. “It allows them to provide rewards in commodities- a tractor or farm animals- as well as cash. In this remote region, key commodities, such as a truck, can provide as much incentive as a large cash bounty.”

Congressman Kirk led a congressional mission to Afghanistan and Pakistan in January to review the rewards program and opportunities for the United States and its allies. He met with several military personnel stationed along the Afghan-Pakistani border who expressed concern over whether the rewards program was helping in the capture of Usama bin Laden. Outdated State Department advertising of its rewards was having little impact in a region where very few people know how to read, or write.

http://www.house.gov/list/pres.....40317.html

By: bluebutterfly

bluebutterfly — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 05:48:55 +0000

It probably was..because they kept turning in people as terrorists. I think that if the money wasn’t paid..there would not have been any more ‘terrorists’ found.

By: MarkH

MarkH — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 03:01:34 +0000

heard Senator Brownback just this morning how we can’t release them because sooooooooooo many have been captured on the battlefield

Bush said the Earth was the battleground. So, that doesn’t narrow it down much.

Question is, was the person trying to harm, kill or impede the U.S. in catching Al Qaeda?

Just being on the battlefield doesn’t mean you’re not a medic, local resident or journalist.

By: MarkH

MarkH — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 02:54:02 +0000

in Gitmo. One would imagine that there are detainees ranging all the way from innocent and harmless- to some pretty dangerous characters. Sorting the sheep from the goats is probably job one.

My guess is that’s already been done, but that Bush wouldn’t release any for fear of appearing weak and stupid.

After all, if you’re in war you’re supposed to have prisoners, right? Of course, he would never call them ‘prisoners of war’. That would’ve gotten him in trouble. Wouldn’t it be nice to just change the name of anything which might cause you trouble. “Oh no officer, that’s not a dead body, just a not living thing.” What a dimwit.

By: MarkH

MarkH — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 02:49:01 +0000

In March 2002, the AP reported that Afghan intelligence offered rewards for the capture of al-Qaida fighters

Do we know if that money was actually paid out or if it just ended up in some American’s pocket.

BTW, it’s not Byelorussia any more. It’s Belarus.

“Udopia” — ha ha LOL 707 Great.

By: macaquerman

macaquerman — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 01:31:57 +0000

I gratified that you did. I wasn’t trying to alienate and feel badly that I did. I did read the troll remark loosely.

By: bluebutterfly

bluebutterfly — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 01:11:31 +0000

You should read more carefully…I did not call you a troll. Broke my pledge, but I will not let you misrepresent what I said. No offence taken..I find the news..I don’t make it up.

By: macaquerman

macaquerman — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 22:58:04 +0000

I was wondering why they held some of the people who weren’t involved or only marginally involved for all this time.
Do you think that the jailers were too f’d-up to admit error?

By: Knut

Knut — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 22:26:22 +0000

I don’t know how dangerous someone who’s been tortured for seven years in the tank is going to be. What the hell are people afraid of? These guys are zombies, their lives have been taken from them. They may hate the United States (and who could blame them at this point), but since when since Joe McCarthy, have bad thoughts been considered lethal to the nation’s safety? Let ‘m go. Most will be wandering the strength and shacking up in refuges for homeless persons.

By: Knut

Knut — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 22:20:24 +0000

Let’s do the math. Say there are 40 percent republicans. 70 percent of them like the idea of torture. 70*40 = 28 percent dead-enders who were for bush all the way. It adds up. Most from the South, where they are programmed to violence against dark people.