[Vision2020] Our Captured GIs

[rvrcowboy]

Chasuk writes: "What an unfounded, childish, defamatory, hateful thing to
say," in reference to my suggestion that Gier could be celebrating the
demise of our captured GIs.

Given the fact Nick has already demonstrated his hatred (what else could you
call it?) for our military and its commander, what other conclusion could
one have?

Dick

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chasuk" <chasuk at gmail.com>
To: "rvrcowboy" <rvrcowboy at clearwire.net>
Cc: "Vision2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Monday, June 19, 2006 9:44 PM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Our Captured GIs


> On 6/19/06, rvrcowboy <rvrcowboy at clearwire.net> wrote:
>
> > Yes, I am curious what people like Nick Gier think of these young
American
> > men.  Do they believe they deserve what they get?   After all, they
> > volunteered to serve in a military commanded by the great war criminal,
> > George Bush, himself!  Surely, they knew they would be called upon to
commit
> > war crimes of their own under such circumstances.  Doesn't that make
them
> > criminals in his mind as well?
>
> Have they mistreated prisoners of war?  Have they participated in
> genocide?  Are they guilty of rape, torture, enforced prostitution,
> enslavement, or other crimes against humanity? No?  Then they aren't
> war criminals.  Yes?  Then they deserve what they get, which should be
> decided by an international court of law.  Klaus Barbie was a war
> criminal.  Adolf Eichmann.  Hermann Goring.  Heinrich Himmler.  Josef
> Goebbels.  Slobodan Milošević.  Pol Pot.  Joseph Stalin.  Tomoyuki
> Yamashita.  Saddam Hussein.  These young American men  are almost
> certainly guilty of nothing more serious than misplaced trust in their
> Commander-in-Chief.
>
> > I can only imagine people like Gier celebrating the demise of these fine
young men.
>
> What an unfounded, childish, defamatory, hateful thing to say.
>
> -- 
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>
> "Aren't people absurd! They never use the freedoms they do have, but
> demand those they don't have; they have freedom of thought, they
> demand freedom of speech." -- Søren Kierkegaard
>