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Max E. Pad

Registered: May 2011
Posts: 6193

02-29-12 06:15 PM

What i find funny is that Panetta is all over the news talking about these draconian cuts to defense, and how there is simply no way he can reduce the defense budget.....How bout we start with not providing million dollar soccer fields to terrorists....

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Great way to balance the budget, spend money we don't have entertaining our enemies.

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377OHMS

Registered: Feb 2005
Posts: 6497

03-01-12 05:21 AM

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[b]Not necessarily. Why? Because[b]

I just feel strongly that we need to treat POWs in the same manner that we want our captured soldiers treated.

Its one of the distinctions between us and the bad guys.

It is also an inducement to enemy combatants on the battle field to surrender instead of fight because they know they will be treated humanely, they know they will be fed, they know they will receive medical attention.

I'm not saying specifically that they should be given a soccer field. I'm just saying that we should treat prisoners as we would want our captured soldiers treated. Our country learned that in the Civil War at Andersonville.

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Lucrum

Registered: Dec 2003
Posts: 31422

03-01-12 07:26 AM

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It is also an inducement to enemy combatants on the battle field to surrender instead of fight because they know they will be treated humanely, they know they will be fed, they know they will receive medical attention.

Good point.

I'm just saying that we should treat prisoners as we would want our captured soldiers treated. Our country learned that in the Civil War at Andersonville.

Andersonville or Chicago?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Douglas_%28Chicago%29

http://www.censusdiggins.com/prison_camp_douglas.html

Most aren't aware of it but the north treated it's POWs as bad as the south did.
And had less of an excuse to do so since the north had greater resources.

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377OHMS

Registered: Feb 2005
Posts: 6497

03-01-12 07:35 AM

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Good point.

[b]
Andersonville or Chicago?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Douglas_%28Chicago%29

http://www.censusdiggins.com/prison_camp_douglas.html

Most aren't aware of it but the north treated it's POWs as bad as the south did.
And had less of an excuse to do so since the north had greater resources.

Andersonville and Chicago. That episode of Ken Burns documentary was hard to watch.

But you are right that no other countries ever seem to reciprocate. My grampa was captured on Sumatra and had stories about the Japanese that are difficult to believe. The Japanese were told that we abused prisoners and they believed it so our guys were treated like animals.

Why are we spending big money on a facility that is supposed to be closed? Obama was critical of George Bush for operating Gitmo and now he is actually doing improvements on the facility.

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Lucrum

Registered: Dec 2003
Posts: 31422

03-01-12 07:43 AM

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Andersonville and Chicago. That episode of Ken Burns documentary was hard to watch.

Fantastic documentry

My grampa was captured on Sumatra and had stories about the Japanese that are difficult to believe.

Few Americans alive today have any idea how brutal the Japanese were during WWII. An allied POW of the Japs was 17 times more likely to die as a POW than fighting on the front lines.

Why are we spending big money on a facility that is supposed to be closed? Obama was critical of George Bush for operating Gitmo and now he is actually doing improvements on the facility.

The utter stupidity and hypocrisy of the left and their leader Obama knows no bounds, literally.

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