I’ll be short and sweet. Does anyone else see the disconnect between British claims that their sailors and marines were psychologically tortured against the empirical evidence via video recorded scenes provided by Iran. The Iranians have disclosed footage portraying these tortured British souls looking quite content, eating, playing chess, watching TV, and wearing tracksuits; and that this clashes quite starkly with the story the British/US government story. The US/British claim that the prisoners spent no more than an hour a day in contact with others, yet the Iranian empirical evidence seems to fly in the face of this. I for one have more faith in empirical evidence. I found it even more striking that the western media chose to omit the full official Iranian statement on why they released the military personal: It went something along the lines of - On the occasion of the birth of the Prophet Muhammad and the death of Jesus Christ, we are releasing them… Does that strike a very ironic religious chord in anyone…
To sum up, I have faith in humans, and I hope to believe that the thinking man sees through the bullshit of Britain/America, and if they don’t, then it’s time to just plain give up on this whole damn endeavor.
April 10, 2007 at 10:58 am |
Jeez, Xelachaps. You disappear and don’t post for eons and then come back to post a toughie. Empirical evidence beats picking sides in a he-said she-said spat any day, but I really don’t know what to make of this situation, mostly because, like the rest of the world, I don’t have enough information. Empirical evidence – video. Okay. What are the details and the specifics of this video and the nature of it? How was it taken? Who took it, exactly? What are the statements from the sailors/marines?
As for psychological torture, the Chinese “psychologically tortured” American soldiers during the Korean war by being nice to them. Yeah. You heard me right. So POWs were given plenty of good food, clean comfortable places to rest, and even entertainment. They socialized and hung out with the Chinese soldiers. The Chinese Communists then asked the soldiers what imperfections they saw in the U.S. government, minor questions, and the soldiers, thinking nothing of it, divulged. Then the Commies would talk about how great the Commies were and the soldiers would agree. Eventually, the soldiers turned on their own country. The U.S. claimed the Chinese used psychological torture to turn the soldiers into traitors and the media made it sound like this horrible thing. Horrible indeed.
So then yeah. Maybe Iran used “psychological torture” if our definition of psychological torture is anything under the sun done by non-Western nations to Westerners.
April 16, 2007 at 12:23 pm |
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April 17, 2007 at 8:02 am |
I think the US/British govt are out to vilify the Iranians, that way any future aggression against the Iranians would be justified. First we begin with an axis of evil, then the claims of torture, and the funding of terrorists. Some of the accusations may very well be true, but you can see the direction of where this is going.
December 17, 2007 at 9:45 am |
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