S3930 - Detainee bill

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Originally Posted by TheMercenary

Look I understand that early on, mistakes were made. Many people I personally know have said so. Those mistakes cannot be undone.

Exact same phrases used in Nuremburg to justify what we much later called the holocaust. It was only a mistake. They did not know. They did not realize.

One of the lessons from the Zimbardo famous study was that many will blindly do as they are told even if they knew it was killing someone. Rather than be a decent person and stop killing another, well, it was only a mistake.

TheMercenary belittles felony crimes into a mistake. A mistake as so many Germans said when confronted with evidence called the holocaust. Only a mistake when enemies of America (called the George Jr administration) 'make a mistake' to impose a political (and religious) agenda on all others. After all, that is the same reasons that justified National Socialism. Had TheMercenary called them ‘anti-American dumb’ or extremists, then it is an honest attempt to explain such crimes. These were not mistakes. Good people don’t make these mistakes. Extremist dumb followers of extremists may blindly make such mistakes for two years? Two years? TheMercenary demonstrates what happens when the keys to an asylum are given to the inmates. TheMercenary demonstrates what happens when political agendas rather than intelligence justifies actions.

When did they 'realize' it was a mistake? When threatened with prosecution.

Those who are extremists must justify everything by a political agenda. When caught - as Germans in Nuremburg – only then it is called a mistake. For two years wacko extremist Americans (ie Cheney) continued to make the same mistakes? Only when criminal minds know no difference between right and wrong. It was only a mistake when one was driving 120 MPH down the highway and killed 35? Of course. It was only a mistake.

Appreciate the attitude of those who promote and defend the George Jr administation. it was only a mistake - the tens of millions whose lives have been destroyed. Had George Jr done this same thing as the President of Iraq, he would have been hanged just like Saddam - and not for a mistake.