That "they" were worse in terms of quantity is undoubtedly true. And, in terms of quality Bush is the same. Identical. He's even using the same prisons as did the Russians.
How many people does a man have to murder to be considered a murderer? How many people have been put to death for killing one, and only one, person? How much time would a person get for torturing one, and only one, person.
The "defense" of the German population was that they had no idea as to the numbers involved, and they couldn't do anything about it anyway. And Hitler was popular with them.
Isn't that the "defense" of the American people. No idea as to numbers. You and I don't know how many, no idea, and assume it's a few.
And, we don't know, any more than Germans under Hitler knew.
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The "degree defense" has some validity.
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- Just when you think Bush can't drag the country any lower, - - -
- "Senate votes to ban torture"
- Word on the street is that we have a secret prison located inside of a pork processing plant.
- Despicable
- If it is true then undoubtedly some honorable people will leak it to the press.
- What rot. We have known for a long time that
- "Someone tell me again how the US is now differs from Stalinist USSR and Hitlers' Germany"