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2005-08-18 Iraq-Jordan

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Posted by Steve White 2005-08-18 01:05|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 It must be driving up demand for women's panties. And with the Olympics rapidly approaching, the human pig pile could be approved as a new event.

Posted by Captain America 2005-08-18 02:43|| 2005-08-18 02:43|| Front Page Top

#2 It always amazes me how blantantly antiwar the WaPo is. Every article of this nature has a blazen section at right featuring "Military Fatalities"

Posted by Captain America 2005-08-18 02:45|| 2005-08-18 02:45|| Front Page Top

#3 Military officials have attributed the influx of detainees to intensified counterinsurgency operations by Iraqi as well as U.S. forces. But the burgeoning prison population also appears to reflect the persistence of the insurgency itself.

This is the *same exact line* they use when trying to explain US crime figures -- they never can quite figure out that locking up people makes it difficult for them to victimize innocent people.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2005-08-18 07:37|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-08-18 07:37|| Front Page Top

#4 ya know I tend to believe yesterday's asertion(think it was yesterday)that these additional troops are for a unit that wiil be used exclusivly for anti-terr ops.Using the 82nd as prision gaurds...I don't think so!How can these WaPo wankers stand the smell,that has to be the nastest colin on the planet.

Posted by raptor 2005-08-18 07:44|| 2005-08-18 07:44|| Front Page Top

#5 At the end of the op they will hav e taken a lot of p[risoners who will need to be guarded. The WaPo was just giving us the Reader's Digest version.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-08-18 09:25|| 2005-08-18 09:25|| Front Page Top

#6 Funny, I didn't see the the Readers' Digest version of unending Abu Ghraib photos and stories put out by WaPo. Or, should I say the paper for fish wrap.

Get real, the juxaposing of "U.S. Fatalities" with "700 More Troops to be Sent to Iraq" is no accident. Last I checked, Readers' Digest doesn't do that.

Posted by Captain America 2005-08-18 12:02|| 2005-08-18 12:02|| Front Page Top

#7 To put this into perspective, these are US military prisoners. What percentage are they compared to the number of "ordinary criminal" prisoners held in a country with 25 million people?

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-08-18 16:55|| 2005-08-18 16:55|| Front Page Top

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