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Originally Posted by Undertoad

Tell that to the many people who died in Afghanistan riots because of harmless actions.

Nobody died because a Koran was flushed down a toilet. We don't even know if it really happened. What killed those people was religious extremism.

And so you have avoided the bottom line question. Why do you avoid this question?

Harmless. What the White House also called it when they changed standards to authorized torture. At what point do we stop moving this line that separates us from Saddam or Hitler?

Throwing the Koran down a toilet is simply another example of harmless - when only an American perspective matters. After all, they are only gooks. Right? Their perspective is completely irrelevant. Korans down the toilet are harmless. FISHing is acceptable. Hanging people from the ceiling with hands tied behind their backs is harmless. Murdering prisoners and then not even doing an investigation is harmless. Torturing prisoners in Guantanamo and Abu Ghriad is harmless.

At what point do we stop moving this line that separates us from Saddam or Hitler? In Vietnam, we never stopped moving that line to justify a massacre of hundreds in My Lai. So acceptable that soldiers who reported the massacre were investigated. Now that you regard a Koran in the toilet as harmless. Now that you regard menstrual blood on the face as harmless. At what point, UT, do you think we should stop moving this line?

The ends justify the means? Good Morning Vietnam ... all over again.