Posted on 05/26/2009 2:38:29 PM PDT by chuck_the_tv_out
On Memorial Day, 2002, FNC's Hannity and Colmes held an interview with U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Troy Dunlap, who was held in Iraq as a POW during the 1991 Persian Gulf War, and his attorney, Steve Fennell, to discuss a lawsuit against the Iraqi government because of torture Dunlap and other POWs endured. During the current debate over how high-level Al-Qaeda prisoners should be treated, and the practical impact harsh interrogations may have on the treatment of American POWs in future wars, it is noteworthy that this kind of review of the violent treatment American POWs have a history of receiving, even before the debate over waterboarding terrorists even began, has been so absent in the media.
Fennell summed up the treatment POWs endured in 1991 in Iraq, despite the fact that the country was a signatory of the Geneva Convention:
We have 17 POWs, the injuries range from broken legs, fractured skulls, beatings that were so bad that the body looked like it had been dipped in indigo dye. Techniques that were used where things such as beatings to the point where most of the beatings stopped only when the POW reached unconsciousness, use of electric shock, cattle prods, drug injections.
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good thing they stopped short of panties on their heads...
Oh my gosh!!!
They didn’t force him to eat a healthy Halal diet did they?
This man endured torture, the bS leftists who say waterboarding is torture need to experience the real torture these men and women actually endured
Good thing they didn’t have women guards...that’d been humiliating.
Don’t you all realize by now that torture is a forbidden and wrong only if the US does it? Come on, get with the program.
/sarcasm
Don’t you all realize by now that torture is a forbidden and wrong only if the US does it? Come on, get with the program.
. . . and mostly, that it is safe and profitable to criticize and second guess the American military, which is why "objective" journalists - and the "liberal" politicians who go along and get along with journalists - do it. Torture by America's enemies is strictly a "dog bites man" story.
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