The Mash Banger gets another one!

[Minimalist]

What you're doing is calling someone 'a mashed potato sausage'

About what I'd expect to find in Drippy's head.

[Diablo]

What you're doing is calling someone 'a mashed potato sausage'

About what I'd expect to find in Drippy's head.

Not even that much.

[Anomalocaris]

About what I'd expect to find in Drippy's head.

Not even that much.

Right, the junk in there can't qualify as food.

[ShaMan]

Hey guys, be nice

It's cruel to poke fun at the mentally handicapped

[Zack]

[Drich]

Terms aside, his analysis appears to be correct. The men have been gravely tortured.

Should the US reply in kind? We've already decided legally that the waterboarding torture is A-ok. Bush said it wasn't torture enough. So since we're just a step away from sawing a tortured man's head off, should we just take that next step or do we wait for another republican president?

Is months of waterboarding torture worse than 30 seconds of having your throat cut?

We weren't water boarding for the sake of putting people though hell or just to do is as a way to mindlessly get back at people, nor to even put off or scare terriosts. We did as a means of extracting information.

None of which is true with the decapitations of the journlists. These acts are to exert authority and terror over a perceived enemy.

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I can think of worse ways to die than being beheaded, but since the brain can function after severing the head it isn't an instant kill. I think the reason they put a bag over your head is probably so they don't have to watch the eyes and mouth move before the head runs out of blood.

Their was no bag on James foley. I did not watch what happened to sotloff.

[Thumpalumpacus]

I haven't watched any of these videos, and I will not. I reckon that doing so is allowing those assholes rent-free headspace.

As for waterboarding, I think Obama barred its use via executive order in 2009, instructing both the DoD and CIA to use the Army Field Manual edition of 2006, which bars it. That's a good start. Torture is a blot on our nation and we ought not practice it under any circumstances. It's a shame that Bush, Cheney, Soo, et al will never be prosecuted for ordering and/or "justifying" it.

[Cato]

We did as a means of extracting information.

Ignorant nonsense.

Research has shown that torture can have enduring negative effects on both survivors and perpetrators, and is ineffective for obtaining reliable information in interrogation.

http://www.cgu.edu/pdffiles/sbos/costanz...gation.pdf

I recommend the linked study if you are at all serious about understanding torture.

[pocaracas]

It's always better to listen to those with the "power" to actually do anything, don't you think?

[Mister Agenda]

Is the 'mash banger' in the titile Drich? Is it derogaory?