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To: r9etb
What "our" people did at Abu Graib (sp) was not only wrong, it put our own soldiers at greater risk -- not to mention giving the 'rats something to bash Bush with. Stupid comments like the one in question ignore the real importance of the crimes committed.

So you agree with the leftist propaganda and the Muslim extremists that "panties on the head" are to blame for attacks against Americans and beheading of innocents?

778 posted on 06/22/2004 3:52:04 PM PDT by Jorge
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To: Jorge
So you agree with the leftist propaganda and the Muslim extremists that "panties on the head" are to blame for attacks against Americans and beheading of innocents?

No. I do not believe it is to blame for the beheadings, nor do I believe it is the cause for most of the attacks on American soldiers.

What I believe it did do is make our task more difficult, for the following reasons:

It makes it much more difficult for the Iraqis to trust our guys, and therefore much more difficult for our guys to gather good intel.

It also makes it less likely that Iraqis will turn in bad guys -- why should they, if a bunch of foreign prison guards are going to mistreat them?

I also believe that it has been an provocation for some fence-sitting Iraqis to go over to the salamikaze side, and probably has pissed some of them off enough to attempt attacks on our guys.

Does that answer your question?

782 posted on 06/22/2004 3:59:41 PM PDT by r9etb
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