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 ‘Proof’ of American HostagesPosted on Jun 4, 2007
A video has surfaced that shows what appears to be the identifications cards of two missing American soldiers. The Islamic State of Iraq, a Sunni insurgent coalition, has claimed responsibility for the capture of three soldiers, one of whom was later found dead.
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By vet240, June 4, 2007 at 5:58 pm #
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When we pick up suspects anywhere in the world, often based on the flimsiest of evidence, we call them “Enemy Combatants”.
We then take them to be “Renditioned” and use “Enhanced Interrigation Methods” on them to get them to admit they are guilty, much like we did way back during the Salem witch trials.
When they pick up some of ours we call them hostages.
Is there a disconnect here?
Report thisBy JNagarya, June 4, 2007 at 5:13 pm #
“#75277 by rcranger on 6/04 at 12:55 pm
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“WHEN I read a article like this it is really irrirating to say the least.
When the pepole that are killing our troops that are
in the coustdy of their group, can do it with impunity. When our people can get sentenced to years in prison for (agressive questioning) it looks like our troops should not be held accountable any more than the insurgents are and for a lot less of a crime”
Torture is a war crime—even when the US does it. And when the US does it, it gives everyone else the excuse that they can do it too.
Do the math: At the same tie Bushit was insisting we had to invade Iraq and overthrow Saddam Hussein because Saddam was a “torturer,” Bushit was having torture imposed on individuals grabbed—and sold for bounty—in Afghanistan.
And then Bushit simply placed such as Abu Ghraib under new management which continued to use that facility for that which Saddam was accused of using it: a torture chamber, rape rooms, beating detainees to death—murder—etc.
In short: Bushit started it, and continues to engage in that war crime _WITH IMPUNITY_; what you’re seeing from the other side is no different than that which Bushit started. Do two wrongs make a right? No. But torture was a war crime when only Bushit was doing it, for which the prohibitions against it include the death penalty.
Report thisBy rcranger, June 4, 2007 at 12:55 pm #
WHEN I read a article like this it is really irrirating to say the least.
Report thisWhen the pepole that are killing our troops that are
in the coustdy of their group, can do it with impunity. When our people can get sentenced to years in prison for (agressive questioning) it looks like our troops should not be held accountable any more than the insurgents are and for a lot less of a crime
By QuyTran, June 4, 2007 at 11:03 am #
These pictures must be shown at G-8 for painful souvenirs !
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