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   ptosisposted 9 years ago

   Worse than Nazis?
   
   On the scale of the epitome of state sanctions evil: It “involuntary rectal feeding and rectal rehydration,” done on prisoners at Guantanamo Bay for inducing total helplessness in torture victims worse than death?
   
   

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   JThomp42posted 9 years ago

   No. Nothing that has been done by the Nazis can even compare to what happened at Guantanamo. The only thing that can compare is Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge. They both tried to kill an entire civilization by genocide. How can you even compare these? Apples and oranges. NO ONE was killed at Guantanamo.

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      ptosisposted 9 years agoin reply to this

      What about that guy who died from hypothermia while naked and chained to the floor? ( just one example - not the only one)

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      JThomp42posted 9 years agoin reply to this

      This question should have never got my attention. It is ludicrous!

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   dashingscorpioposted 9 years ago

   Not even close!

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      ptosisposted 9 years agoin reply to this

      I invoked the Nazis because Congress just passed a bill to no longer give social security checks to war criminals yet Obama says "get over it" from something that happened less than a decade ago.

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   Paul K Francisposted 9 years ago

   The Nazis were engaged in genocide, with the intention of completely eliminating certain populations from the planet. I can think of nothing more heinous, or anything that comes close.

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      ptosisposted 9 years agoin reply to this

      Manifest Destiny & confinement of Indians to reservations, and full blown genocide? Want some Small-pox blankets?

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   Aime Fposted 9 years ago

   You could've asked this question without bringing the Nazis into it: "Is this torture worse than death?"
   
   No idea what the point is in comparing it to the Nazis, it doesn't even remotely compare to the holocaust.

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      ptosisposted 9 years agoin reply to this

      the Nazis for a host of war crimes, that also included torture. Torture remains a crime under the Geneva Conventions, Nuremberg Law and the U.S. Criminal Code

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   Ericdierkerposted 9 years ago

   A stunning and strange comparison. Just tour Dachau and ask the same question. I do not think that the Nazis published scathing reports about their own conduct -- that should give you all the clue you need as to how far off base this question is, along with the gratuitous picture.

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      ptosisposted 9 years agoin reply to this

      Are you saying that  I should have put the Gitmo pic of a smiling girl giving the thumbs up over a corpse?

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   ptosisposted 9 years ago

   
   
   The Problem of American Exceptionalism is that  we do all the things other countries do yet somehow when we do it, it is "not so bad". Nazis did human trials of how long it took someone to die in cold water. That's why now we have neck rests on the back of life jackets because people last 30 minutes longer when the the back of the neck is out of the cold water. 
   
   The Tuskegee syphilis experiment 1932 and 1972 was continued without informed consent even after the cure was found.
   
   What was done as reported in this report is just as disgusting and repulsive as the Japanese comfort women in WWII and other atrocities that are  war crimes.
   
   This is a report on war crimes as signed by Ronald Reagan in 1988. Obama is wrong to say "get over it". The perpetrators should be  punished to the fullest extent of the law (including Cheney and Bush43) - when that is done then we can regain our honor and say that the United States is the best country in the world with pride.
   
   Honestly.

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