(Abu Ghraib) Torture? Not if cheerleaders do it, lawyer claims

The London Times ^ | 1.10.05 | Jenny Booth

[mhking]

Just damn.

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[Paleo Conservative]

Forcing naked Iraqi prisoners to pile themselves in human pyramids was not torture, because American cheerleaders do it every year, a court was told today.

I wonder if we could get the Dallas Cowboy chearleaders to make a pyrmamid nude?

[ScottFromSpokane]

That's a dumb argument.

It isn't torture because it isn't torture. Humiliating and degrading prisoners may be wrong (it is certainly wrong when done merely for the entertainment of the jailers). It may be criminal (ditto). For the sake of argument let's even say that it's as bad as torture.

But it's still not torture. Torture is a different thing.

[mhking]

I wonder if we could get the Dallas Cowboy chearleaders to make a pyrmamid nude?

Don't forget "by force"... [g]

[MonroeDNA]

Panties on the head--people pay for this stuff.

[Txsleuth]

Geez, where did he get this "intellect" of a lawyer?

[Rakkasan1]

"Don’t cheerleaders all over America form pyramids six to eight times a year. Is that torture?"

not if I'm on the bottom of said pile>:)

[sigarms]

I haven't see a single case of torture coming out of Abu Ghraib or anywhere else. Am I missing something?

[Anti-Bubba182]

I give it to Womack for chutzpah!

[wolfpat]

Well, if we're talking about the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders, I'd gladly volunteer to be on the bottom.

[shubi]

Torture is watching one of our soldiers get eaten alive by leftists in our own military.

[shubi]

Your missing that the military is willing to try our soldiers instead of standing up to the traitorous leftist scum.

[wagglebee]

Where the hell are the pictures of the cheerleaders?!

[Roscoe Karns]

I wonder what little gems Ramsey Clark will come up with while defending Saddam? Will Jenny Booth write a sneering article about that? (rhetorical
question)

[ddantas]

I haven't see a single case of torture coming out of Abu Ghraib or anywhere else. Am I missing something?

According to a report by Major General Antonio M. Taguba, detainees were beaten with broom handles and chairs, anally raped with chemical lights, attacked by military working dogs, and forced into oral sex with other detainees.

[FreedomCalls]

I haven't see a single case of torture coming out of Abu Ghraib or anywhere else. Am I missing something?

This one is pretty close. Letting the dog actually bite him was over the top. To say nothing of this dead dude packed in ice. Of course, we don't know how he got dead.

[NeoCaveman]

Forcing naked Iraqi prisoners to pile themselves in human pyramids was not torture, because American cheerleaders do it every year, a court was told today.

Pictures!!!

[Hank Rearden]

Ugliest damn cheerleader in history:

[JoanneSD]

Panties on the head... is this not a form of politcally correct cross dressing...