... what a way to encourage peak athletic performance.

[anwserman]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/iraq_torture_tools

Egad. :'(
Isn't that horrible?

http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_disapprove.gif

[Firocket1690]

If I remember correctly, "best" means highest performance. There can only be one "best" out of everything.

...

I assume most of them were tortured ?
o_O

... or is that why so many US forces died ? o.o

[Solstis]

eee!

http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_nono.gif

At least, no artificial enhancements were used (steriods)?

http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_frown.gif

[ABDUR101]

I wonder what the board meeting they discussed that in was like.

"I know! We'll encourage them to do better by torturing the losers!"

"...but if they know the losers will get tortured, won't competitors dwindle over the years due to fear?"

*gunshot*

[tai_EX]

GASP! thats horrible.. i think Saddam will burn in hell for taht.. and OTHER things hes done before.. which i wont name..

[Eihwaz]

On 2004-07-30 21:37, ABDUR101 wrote:
I wonder what the board meeting they discussed that in was like.

"I know! We'll encourage them to do better by torturing the losers!"

"...but if they know the losers will get tortured, won't competitors dwindle over the years due to fear?"

*gunshot*


http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_lol.gif

Yeah, but that's horrible. Well, he got his punishment, so this kinda stuff hopefully won't happen again. >_>

[Primeval]

All of that is just sick... <_<
I'd complain more, but that'd get onto a George Bush topic; and that would belong in rants http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/anime1.gif

But no I have very strong opinions about Bush, so that's just better off left alone...

[lain2k3]

Yeah, and I cant look at a fucking news site because of the goddamned parental controls that have been installed.

I really wish censorship was illegal

[Eihwaz]

On 2004-08-03 14:32, lain2k3 wrote:
Yeah, and I cant look at a fucking news site because of the goddamned parental controls that have been installed.

I really wish censorship was illegal


I hear ya Lain. Parental controls blow. Of course...I uh...don't have them anymore...so...http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/anime2.gif

I'm fairly sure you can find programs that can disable them...

[anwserman]

On 2004-08-03 14:32, lain2k3 wrote:
Yeah, and I cant look at a fucking news site because of the goddamned parental controls that have been installed.

I really wish censorship was illegal



BAGHDAD, Iraq - Torture equipment used by Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s slain son, Odai, to punish underperforming Iraqi athletes was displayed Saturday at a Baghdad sports stadium in advance of the opening of the Olympics next month in Athens.

Journalists were shown medieval-style torture equipment, including an "iron maiden-like" casket with metal spikes fixed to the inside that athletes had been forced into and chain whips with steel barbs the size of tennis balls attached to the end.

"During the old regime, Odai was looking for results and he wanted winners. He didn't like second place," Talib Mutan, an Iraqi Olympics Committee official, told Associated Press Television News.

"If the athletes didn't come in first, they were punished. And he would punish the people around the athletes, their managers and coaches included," Mutan said.

Odai, who ran the Olympic committee while his father ruled Iraq (news - web sites), and his younger brother Qusai were killed in a fierce gunbattle with U.S. forces a year ago in the northern city of Mosul.

Mutan said athletes who earned Odai's wrath were tortured in various ways, through beatings, sleep deprivation and being forced to walk barefoot over hot asphalt during Iraq's searing summer.

The official said suggestions had been made to display the torture equipment in a museum, but there had been no final decision.

The International Olympic Committee (news - web sites) reinstated Iraq's national Olympic committee in February after it was suspended following the fall of Saddam's regime in 2003, enabling Iraqi athletes to compete at this year's Summer Games.

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