US war crime as free speech issue (help holmes sort this out)

While this sort of treatment is offensive, it's also very predictable.One of the first things that happens in war is the dehumanization of your enemy. If they are people, then killing them is murder. If they are not people, then killing them is a job.This sort of thing has been going on for a long time. And I'm not talking about Vietnam here. Similiar stuff was happening in the Spanish-American war (and just after) in the Phillipens.This sort of thing tends to creap up whenever our military consists of mostly younger men (18-25). Kind of makes you wonder if they are the sort we want fighting wars.

Yup, and I can tell you exactly where -We completely lost our moral bearings when the Religious Right decided that they had a monopoly on morality.Now we are in a Holy War because Jesus is apparently a person friend of W's and really wanted us to attack Iraq.When one side of a conflict is completely and absolutely 100% morally justified and right and fighting for God's side etc (Us), then whatever we do to the evil, bad, amoral, wrong, Godless enemy (them) is justified.Unfortunately, this statement is true even when we switch who's on which side.

But Gays are iccky