CBC: Iraq to pardon killers of coalition soldiers

[SidDithers]

link:
http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2004/07/12/world/iraq_amnesty040712

Not sure what to make of this...

Sid

[phillybri]

1. Make this of it:

This war never should've happened. Works for me!

[grytpype]

2. San Francisky?

So did you drive or did you flew?

[Ganja Ninja]

3. Are they sending Bush, Cheney, Rummy and Wolfie a pardon too?

After all if it weren't for them we wouldn't be in Iraq.

[DoktorGreg]

4. It means the "insurgency" has grown so large

That to arrest and prosecute the "criminals" would be logistically impossible. So in a vain effort to remain "credible", the Iraqi "Government" is acknowledging the legitimacy of their grievance.

I for one, hope they are successful. However I fear this is too little too late.

[bowens43]

5. Why do they need to be pardoned ?

They were defending their country against an invading force. There is no crime in that.

[Solly Mack]

6. Exactly

[Az_lefty]

7. Their trying to break up the insurgency

by offering the low level recruits a way out. There's a story in the NY Times about the insurgency developing internal rift. Not sure if one plays into the other.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/11/international/middleeast/11INSU.html

[Bandit]

9. It may just do the opposite...They now know they may get a pardon

sometime in the future as well. It is an added incentive to enlist more insurgents. As long as the US Military is occupying their soil they will resist as I would if our roles were reversed.

[rocktivity]

8. What IS there to make of it

when our soliders and mercenaries have been given immunity from any crimes they may have committed against Iraqi guerillas and civilians?

:headbang:
rocknation