Posted on 05/02/2004 2:18:48 PM PDT by kattracks
Edited on 07/12/2004 3:41:59 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
NAJAF, Iraq (AP) -- Dhia al-Shweiri spent several stints in Baghdad's notorious Abu Ghraib prison, twice under Saddam Hussein's rule and once under American. He prefers Saddam's torture to the humiliation of being stripped naked by his American guards, he said Sunday in an interview with The Associated Press.
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Hey, I gave a rat's ass until Iraqi civilians started lynching American civilians and jumping up and down like savages celebrating everytime an American gets killed. That tends to dim my view of these people.
Did the US soldiers abuse and mistreat these prisoners? Yes. Did they "torture" them? Emphatically, no. If you can prove they were tortured [i.e. their bodies were damaged or penetrated], I would be upset. But even according to this guys own account, he was not tortured, but rather hazed.
Any time I'm tempted to believe the story line that we went to Iraq to liberate people, I just come to this site and it sets me straight.
So why did we go there? And you act as if our soldiers were treating everyone this way. How do you know that the people so mistreated are not terrorists?
I don't really approve of what our soldiers did, but please keep things in perspective.
It is hard to sympathetic with a guy that thinks like this.
"But that's better than the humiliation of being stripped naked," he said. "Shoot me here," he added, pointing between his eyes, "but don't do this to us."
This reads like it was written by Scrapple Face or the onion. If nothing else, our M.I. has learned that all that is needed to break the will of "die hard" al-Mahdi fighters is to look at them while they are naked.
Military institutional policy.
Fact:
When the Democrats fearless leader was caught red handed lying in a court of law, not only as the president of the United States of America, but as a lawyer, (for which he later lost his license to practice) he made the country go through a politicized impeachment process and still would not step down. When clinton finally left office, he spent the last hours of that time pardoning criminals who had paid him off.
When we bring up example from the clinton administration to demonstrate the democrat's lack of sincerity; to show that they are care nothing about the principles involved; only about the opportunity to bring their hated enemy, ( the hated enemy is the one who does not think emotionally and opportunistically like them). they will say something like 'two wrongs do not make a right ~ nor do more wrongs make anything right. Ironically, President Clinton refused to admit that he committed crimes that he obviously committed (perjury and obstruction of justice).
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