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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIslamic State committing 'staggering' violations against humanity in Iraq: UN report
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-10-03/islamic-state-committing-staggering-violations-in-iraq-un/5786954A United Nations report has provided new evidence of what it calls a staggering list of human rights abuses by Islamic State (IS) militants in Iraq.
It revealed systematic violations carried out since IS began its advance across Iraq in July.
The report, based on 500 interviews, provides evidence of mass executions, the kidnapping of women and girls to use as sex slaves, and the use of child soldiers.
"This report is terrifying," the UN's special representative for Iraq Nickolay Mladenov said.
The report detailed how Iraqi police officers, soldiers and journalists had been killed in a series of mass executions.
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Islamic State committing 'staggering' violations against humanity in Iraq: UN report (Original Post)
Rhinodawg
Oct 2014
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malaise
(269,237 posts)1. Compared with where
Gaza?
Rhinodawg
(2,219 posts)2. Hey....lets blame America !!!
Rhinodawg
(2,219 posts)3. Obviously its the evil america's fault...
JHB
(37,163 posts)6. As long as you're posting pictures of Donald Rumsfeld...
...yeah, I blame him too.
JHB
(37,163 posts)5. I'll certainly blame Bush
Rhinodawg
(2,219 posts)10. Bush has a lot of blame.
He didn't start al-queda and he didn't start ISIS.
CJCRANE
(18,184 posts)11. Bremer also bears some of the blame
for dismantling the Iraqi army and sending 250,000 armed men home without pay.
JHB
(37,163 posts)12. That's a subset of Bush's responsibility
After all:
1) Who gave Bremer the job? and
2) Who's actions created that job opening?
JHB
(37,163 posts)13. So what? He gave them a fertile ground to grow in.
Al Queda could have been destroyed as an organization in Afghanistan, but that took a back seat to Bush & his PNAC gallery's fantasies about Iraq.
In his new book, The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created A War Without End, Galbraith, the son of the late economist John Kenneth Galbraith, claims that American leadership knew very little about the nature of Iraqi society and the problems it would face after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein.
A year after his "Axis of Evil" speech before the U.S. Congress, President Bush met with three Iraqi Americans, one of whom became postwar Iraq's first representative to the United States. The three described what they thought would be the political situation after the fall of Saddam Hussein. During their conversation with the President, Galbraith claims, it became apparent to them that Bush was unfamiliar with the distinction between Sunnis and Shiites.
Galbraith reports that the three of them spent some time explaining to Bush that there are two different sects in Islam--to which the President allegedly responded, "I thought the Iraqis were Muslims!"
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"From the president and the vice president down through the neoconservatives at the Pentagon, there was a belief that Iraq was a blank slate on which the United States could impose its vision of a pluralistic democratic society," said Galbraith. "The arrogance came in the form of a belief that this could be accomplished with minimal effort and planning by the United States and that it was not important to know something about Iraq."
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Ambassador_claims_shortly_before_invasion_Bush_0804.html
A year after his "Axis of Evil" speech before the U.S. Congress, President Bush met with three Iraqi Americans, one of whom became postwar Iraq's first representative to the United States. The three described what they thought would be the political situation after the fall of Saddam Hussein. During their conversation with the President, Galbraith claims, it became apparent to them that Bush was unfamiliar with the distinction between Sunnis and Shiites.
Galbraith reports that the three of them spent some time explaining to Bush that there are two different sects in Islam--to which the President allegedly responded, "I thought the Iraqis were Muslims!"
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"From the president and the vice president down through the neoconservatives at the Pentagon, there was a belief that Iraq was a blank slate on which the United States could impose its vision of a pluralistic democratic society," said Galbraith. "The arrogance came in the form of a belief that this could be accomplished with minimal effort and planning by the United States and that it was not important to know something about Iraq."
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)4. ISIS is pure evil.
CJCRANE
(18,184 posts)7. They've taken the gloves off and gone to the dark side. nt
Deny and Shred
(1,061 posts)9. Bring It On (eom)
Baclava
(12,047 posts)8. July? They just figured this out? So will the UN be sending troops to join the fight?
talk is cheap