The fact that 36% of U.S. citizens are okay with the torture bothers me.

I watched Schindler's list and was disturbed. I saw this movie about Armenians being tortured and I could barely handle it. When I saw the way these groups were oppressed and abused to heinous degrees by an oppressive regime bothers me. I have never felt such anger and sadness in my whole life. I was scared, I wanted to get the soldiers who were doing this horrible thing and beat the living shit out of them. It just aroused so much emotion in me. It haunts me to this day. To think that in this country that a high percentage of people could be so uncaring about these things makes me sick. Where did we go wrong? Both as Americans and as humans. I will say, Prejudice is very human. THis kind of hatred is not. It is not acceptable and it makes me want to cry that people could be like this.

36%? How was it phrased?

Somebody posted it earlier today. I think that it was from CNN. I'm not sure.

Something doesn't sound right but next to nothing surprises me these days.

and this 36% did not surprise me, this was also the hard core base for Adolph Hitler.

By the way this is just the tip of the iceberg but also means we all have to start talkung about this VERY VOCALLY and get them troops home as fast as we can....

And yes I know what this means insofar as the Arab world is concerned, but those photos have gone all over hte world... the little we could have done to avoid the worst case scenario is gone now.

And yes there was still something we could do IF many things changed and this mess was internationalized. These photos, we have lost the region for at least fifty years.

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for a lot longer than that. They haven't forgotten the crusades yet.

.. can't find the CNN link (to which the poll was attributed) ..

I suspect it is gone, ran in the morning

http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/wolf.blitzer.reports

QUESTION OF THE DAY
Were you upset by pictures that appear to show Iraqi detainees being abused by U.S. troops?

Yes 67%
No 33%

DU link >>
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=1505787

because they now know that they have been wrong all along

It's an online poll. Completely unscientific and totally freeped.

Americans decided to support torture online because they're republican supporters, support torture or just like to be 'contrarians'...

What part isn't scary?

I understand the 'freep' part, but why would they 'freep' that poll? Did they read Dershowitz or something?

does anything other than support the repuke regime. It wouldn't matter whether they saw chimp murder someone with his bare hands in front of them they would still support him. Don't worry about that 30 something percent, they are irredeemable NOTHING ever touches their heart or conscience...because they have neither. :-(