Wednesday, September 28, 2005

Does this piss anyone else off?

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7374-1801869,00.html

The Iraqis are furious that a young girl humiliating terrorist combatants only gets 3 years in prison...This while dusting under the rug the decapitation of innocent unarmed CIVILIANS by these same terrorists. The Iraqi combatants are not uniformed soldiers and Geneva Convention does not apply to them. I understand that what happened at Abu Ghraib was wrong. I understand it humiliated the prisoners there. I also understand that they are combatants set on killing Americans. Given the chance any one of them would cut your head off with a dull knife while you scream for your life. I think putting them on a dog leash was light on the scale of punishments. Instead Anti-Americans looking for someone to roast have turned these cold blooded killers into the poster children for why America is evil. Not once in the article does it mention that no physical harm was done to them.

These poor poor terrorists. The bad bad Americans embarrassed me. Lets see if we can get the world to pressure the United States to ruin their careers and send them to prison, then whine when the sentence isn't death.

THESE SOLDIERS EMBARRASSED KILLERS! THEY PUT UNDERWEAR ON THE HEADS OF TERRORISTS!
STOP BOWING TO THE USELESS, IMPOTENT U.N. GEORGE BUSH! FRAT BOYS ENDURE WORSE AS PLEDGES AND YOU ARE SELLING OUR SOLDIERS UP THE RIVER TO "PROTECT OUR IMAGE"!

Most of the U.N. already hates us either openly or behind closed doors. Ruining the lives of these soldiers will not change that. I agree some punishment is in order but not hard time in federal prison. We should make choices in these matters based on our values, not the world's. Remember, the U.N. would not have a peace keeping force without us. Europe would still be under the reign of Nazi Germany. China would be controlled by Imperial Japan and Africa by an Italian fascist regime. Without us they are nothing. It is time we stood up for ourselves and told those self righteous bigots at the U.N. to go to hell. Open season on Americans is over. Viva la Revolution!

1 comment:

JC said...

wow.

3 years is a long time, but I will defer that decision to the court-martial. I think they've probably made the best decision they could in the circumstance.

Yes, I do get angry when I see people call for her blood on tv because she did some unsavory things, I also get angry when I think about how many people were involved in this business, and how it must have been at minimum encouraged by the interrigators at the prison, if not actually ordered, and its a misguided young woman who gets the blame for the whole thing.

I also think what we see is totally different from what the Iraqis see.

In New Orleans recently, terrified people were reporting and believing exaggerated claims of violence and lawlessness. It turned out, very little of that business actually happened. (according to a story this morning at Knight-Ridder)

I think a similar situation is happening in Iraq, the actuall lawlessness allows rumors to become truth. I have seen reports (reported as news) on websites both american and Iraqi people saying there were women and children raped in abu gharib, as well as summary executions and beatings that resulted in death.

I don't want to believe anybody gets raped at Abu Gharib, then again, I wouldn't have believed it about the NYPD before several officers admitted to sodomizing a prisoner in their custody.

No doubt, some people get mistreated in military custody, they should not, even though we are not always required by law to give them humane treatment, we are required to do so by our own standards. These standards often cause us to lose wars.

When one of our people mistreats a prisoner, we are honor-bound to punish that soldier. It is necessary to keep 350,000 armed teenagers under control.

As far as Iraqis, the ones who are shouting loudest may really believe we are raping women and children in there. Then again, they may just be trying to get support, the same way our politicians use issues to play up different constituencies...

I ask, as you do, Why are they not fuming every day about the zealots blowing themselves up in crowds every day? Why does this get the attention?

Probably just politics. Politics in the middle east are a little rougher than they are up here, and no amount of ideological zeal, either muslim or neocon will change that.