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2008-08-15 Iraq

US Navy charges Iraq camp guards with abuse

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Posted by Steve White 2008-08-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Yawn.

"There had been some detainee-on-guard issues, which ranged from spitting to throwing bodily functions at some guards,"

If that doesn't warrant a beating, nothing does.

Posted by NCMike (formerly JerseyMike) 2008-08-15 08:30|| 2008-08-15 08:30|| Front Page Top

#2 Two detainees suffered minor abrasions as a result of the alleged assaults

Oh God!!! No!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-08-15 09:29|| 2008-08-15 09:29|| Front Page Top

#3 As far as I know (I'm no historian), in every world culture over the past 7,000 years of recorded humanity, a prisoner who spits on a prison guard gets pummeled. Just one of those informal rules of human behavior and conduct ...

Posted by Steve White 2008-08-15 09:45|| 2008-08-15 09:45|| Front Page Top

#4 Steve, in the good old days, prisoners were routinely beaten, chained, tortured, hung, starved, crushed, and all kinds of mean nasty things.
Only today (and only for Americans) are guards charged because they responded to harassment like this.

Posted by Rambler in California">Rambler in California 2008-08-15 12:20|| 2008-08-15 12:20|| Front Page Top

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