[Wu]

Hey Mona..........shut up.

[cgk]

Pinging Mona's list...

[John Lenin]

bump

[VOA]

bump

[Flatus I. Maximus]

And yet, of all things to do to Arab men, to humiliate them sexually, particularly before female soldiers, is among the worst

I dunno. Given that Sheik Abdul-Sattar al-Bahadli has just issued a ruling that the Koran permits Iraqis to keep as slaves any female British or American soldiers they capture, I think we need a lot more pictures of Iraqi fighters being sexually humiliated by western women.

[fr_freak]

Most Arab men would gladly endure physical pain or even death before such dishonor as we have caused.

This obviously isn't true, at least not in the case of the guys in the pile. If it were, the Iraqi prisoners would have refused to do it and there would have been no way to force them other than pain and death which, according to Maona and conventional wisdom, they would rather accept anyway. Since they are not dead and don't look beaten, one can only conclude that it was actually rather easy to convince them to do this. So much for the whole death before dishonor BS.

[jjackson]

Explaining the obvious.

We already know that this is not good news.

[k2blader]

Meanwhile, every Iraqi who is pro-U.S. and pro-democracy will have to explain himself to his countrymen. He is siding with the private who held a naked Iraqi by a leash.

Yep.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Already awash in conspiracy theories and mistrust of us, Iraqis will now give even more credence to every crackpot and vicious explanation of our behavior handed to them by Al Jazeera or the local newspapers.

Honest ones will be asking why such events are so few.

[The Wizard]

take a pill....

[samtheman]

And yet, of all things to do to Arab men, to humiliate them sexually, particularly before female soldiers, is among the worst.

Oh, please, let's all cry a bucketful of crocodile tears, why don't we, and conveniently forget the centuries of physical abuse and total humiliation heaped on millions upon millions of Islamic women around the world.

This women is a disgrace to her country, her civiliaztion and her sex.

[af_vet_1981]

Is it possible to repair this?

Yes. Investigate the abuse. Prosecute the perps. Give them a fair trial and a fast and very public hanging.

[PGalt]

Small-picture, guilt-ridden, hand-wringing...continues. A ticking terrorist thinking, plotting, deceiving...will snap some back to reality.