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2006-06-21 Iraq

Bodies of G.I.'s Show Signs of Torture, Iraqi General Says

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Posted by ed 2006-06-21 09:08|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 If we're going to have a clash of civilizations, doesn't there need to be someone civilized on the other side?

Posted by Cherong Glish7834 2006-06-21 09:41|| 2006-06-21 09:41|| Front Page Top

#2 No doubt Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch will be expressing their outrage over this. Waiting patiently....

Posted by SteveS 2006-06-21 09:56|| 2006-06-21 09:56|| Front Page Top

#3 Indeed...non-stop news coverage is beginning to overwhelm me.

Posted by kelly 2006-06-21 10:10|| 2006-06-21 10:10|| Front Page Top

#4 If I had my way we would have dumped the entire lot at Gitmo, in a similar state, on the doorsteps of AI a long time ago.

Posted by Cleamble Ebbomose9105 2006-06-21 10:11|| 2006-06-21 10:11|| Front Page Top

#5 We've been through this before.American Indians used to scalp and desecrate the bodies of our soldiers. The Japanese frequently tortured and mutilated our troops. We then got fairly cruel with the Indians. As for Japanese, we stopped taking prisoners. Ever.

Posted by SOP35/Rat 2006-06-21 11:40|| 2006-06-21 11:40|| Front Page Top

#6 Yep, the VC/NVA we're no picnic either in that respect. The only difference is that now we give combatants out of uniform Geneva conventions they don't rate. We could summarily execute them but then that complicates intel gathering efforts (hajji thinks he's gonna get whacked so he fights to the death or clams up because either way it don't matter - he's dead). I tend to like one of Rommel's maxims (paraphrased): to the surrendering soldier - give them all courtesies due a respected opponent, to the guerilla - no quarter.

Posted by Broadhead6 2006-06-21 12:40|| 2006-06-21 12:40|| Front Page Top

#7 Captive incidents like this make me fear that US Army uniforms, weapons and kit will be worn by clean shaven bad guys to infiltrate restricted areas and cause havoc.

Posted by Besoeker 2006-06-21 12:46|| 2006-06-21 12:46|| Front Page Top

#8 P*n*s Durbin from Illinois, otherwise known as Dick "The Turban", was flatuating again. Heard what he said on Laura Ingraham a couple of hours ago. The only withdrwal that should of happened was by his father, 9 months before Dick was born, but alas, that is water under the bridge, isn't it?

Posted by Tell D Truth 2006-06-21 12:47|| 2006-06-21 12:47|| Front Page Top

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Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2006-06-21 15:37|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2006-06-21 15:37|| Front Page Top

#10 Time to load israeli bullets and make it known.

Posted by anonymous2u 2006-06-21 15:39|| 2006-06-21 15:39|| Front Page Top

#11 Yep, nothing new, move on, be careful and kill first.

Posted by 6 2006-06-21 15:48|| 2006-06-21 15:48|| Front Page Top

#12 How bout loading Israeli bullets, dipped in pig blood? Just sayin'...

Posted by mcsegeek1 2006-06-21 16:04|| 2006-06-21 16:04|| Front Page Top

#13 That would offend the pigs.

Pig poop now.....

Posted by CrazyFool 2006-06-21 16:31|| 2006-06-21 16:31|| Front Page Top

#14 We need to understand that to win, we need the attitude, and we need to be vicious, decisive, and overwhelming. Also, the president needs to lead, especially in deed. The MSM hands the public defeatest blather 24/7, but I do not hear much about this barbarity issue from the President or the Secretary of Defense.

Posted by Alaska Paul in Nikolaevsk, Alaska 2006-06-21 16:50|| 2006-06-21 16:50|| Front Page Top

#15 Moonbats blaming this all on Abu Ghraib/Gitmo in 5....4....3....

Posted by Desert Blondie 2006-06-21 17:26|| http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com]">[http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com] 2006-06-21 17:26|| Front Page Top

#16 "The torture was something unnatural."

"Unnatural"? What the hell does that mean???

Sometimes-- like right now-- I think this war may not be over until Arabic is spoken only in Hell...

Posted by Dave D.">Dave D. 2006-06-21 17:45|| 2006-06-21 17:45|| Front Page Top

#17 When these bastards arrive in their own particular corner of Hell, they are going to find that their propaganda was right and Satan is Jewish and that their suffering and humiliation will be for all eternity. I am in favor of drowning al Q members in pig offal.

Posted by RWV 2006-06-21 20:29|| 2006-06-21 20:29|| Front Page Top

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