“troop” is a word that refers, not to an individual, but a group, derived from the Old Norse word “thorp”, a village.

Webster says:

1 a: a group of soldiers b: a cavalry unit corresponding to an infantry company
c plural : armed forces, soldiers
2: a collection of people or things : crew 2
3: a flock of mammals or birds
4: the basic organizational unit of Boy Scouts or Girl Scouts under an adult leader

The issue isn’t whether torture is right or wrong–OUR GOVT IS PLACING EVERY TROOP IN THAT REGION (and beyond) at RISK! The ordinary people from Iraqi– Afghanistan to Saudi Arabia will want revenge–They will take it out against the first American they see.

Also–IN AMERICA THE RISE OF VIOLENCE MAY INCREASE IN OUR STREETS!

We need TO LET OBAMA KNOW IF OUR TROOPS ARE STILL IN THAT REGION–DO NOT RELEASE THE 100 interviews, a review of the videotapes and 38,000 pages of documents. I HAVE SEEN JUST A GLIMPSE OF ONE VIDEO–BELIEVE ME THERE WILL BE BLOODSHED.

OBAMA NEEDS TO BACK OFF–AND FOR ONCE PUT THE SAFETY OF OUR TROOPS FIRST! MY GOD–BELIEVE ME–THE TROOPS–AMERICANS ABROAD–AMERICANS AT HOME WILL NOT BE SAFE!

AT A LATER TIME, THE ISSUE COULD BE ADDRESSED ABOUT TORTURE–BUT NOW– PLEASE HELP ME BY NOTIFYING THE ELECTED OFFICIALS TO REMEMBER OUR TROOPS–REMEMBER THE FAMILY MEMBERS OF THE TROOPS STATIONED IN THAT REGION!

WE NEED YOUR VOICE AND ALL YOUR EFFORTS ON THIS ISSUE! IF OBAMA DOESN’T PAY ATTENTION TO OUR VOICES–OUR HEARTS–THEN HE (ALONG WITH HOMELAND SECURITY DIRECTOR) MUST WANT MORE BLOODSHED AMONG THE INNONCENT!

OBAMA WAS THINKING OF PUTTING THE INTERRORGATORS ON TRIAL–SO THAT TELLS YOU FROM OBAMA’S VIEW–WHY WOULD AN AMERICAN PRESIDENT WANT TO EVEN RELEASE THE DOCUMENTS–VIDEOS–WHEN THE END RESULT WILL BE MORE HATRED IN THE WORLD FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE!

I wish the MSM would address Cheney’s paranoia and his “fear of fear,” instead of treating his outbursts as sane policy utterances! They aren’t!! He is not the first mentally ill person to hold high office. But he certainly is the most irksome!!!!

To expand on your theme, it’s effective to shoot kids that walk on your lawn. That doesn’t make it legal. Likewise it’s not legal to destroy a country, kill a million-plus of its citizens and drive four or five million into exile, based on the testimony of someone who told you everything he knew when you were using traditional methods (FBI) and then made up the story you demanded only under torture (CIA) that Saddam was behind 9/11.

The public thinks (how? don’t ask) the CIA is all about gathering intelligence, when 90% of their business is destroying other sovereign states for the benefit of Wall Street. The CIA is the gangrenous core of the dark forces of the world, at least since the fall of the USSR, and to a great extent they (or rather their predecessors, and their underlying nest: the international bankers whence they spring) brought the USSR into being (e.g., Jacob Schiff bragged on his death bed how he spent $20 million to bring down the Tsar. Three gold shipments in 1920 alone, from Lenin to Kuhn, Loeb & Company and Morgan Guaranty Trust repaid the $20 million to the bankers, and this was just a small down payment).

If not for a young naval officer named Richard Nixon in whose charge the Karl Blessing files were put for analysis, his mentor and sponsor Allen Dulles (and brother John F.) would have stood in the dock at Nuremberg.

The bigger picture — the bigger picture. That’s what gets lost in all this talk. The whole of the story has to be the object of discussion. Don’t you agree?

That, by U.S. Law, makes it legal to torture anyone with methods the President will claim aren’t torture.

“If the President does it, it isn’t torture” becomes a true statement under American law.

Repeal the MCA of 2006 or have it determined in it’s entirety Unconstitutional.