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Edited on Sun Feb-18-07 04:53 PM by KCabotDullesMarxIII
have your incredible blogosphere.
They were rabid supporters of that baby-sitter/nurse, as far as I'm aware, simply because she is English! It fits their m.o. to a tee.
Today, they are championing soldiers of ours in Iraq, who were responsible for the death in custody of an Iraqi hotel worker, found with more than 50 wounds on his body. They are depicting the senior officer, who wasn't actually present, as a scapegoat, martyred by the government for daring to indict him. As if the sadism had been effected while they were under heavy fire fom the enemy! The stress they were under at the time was shocking. There may have been mortar fire, but that's war.
The Nazis retreating from vengeful Russian troops in hot pursuit could have offered the same "defence" for wasting the rural hamlets and villages they passed through. But with more reason, albeit as notional a reason as could be imagined. Until, that it is, this case in Iraq.
The fact is, as in every other sphere of life, the army has its share of psychopaths, and in the situation out there, the treatment of prisoners should be carefully monitored. We are the ones waging a war of aggression, not the Iraqis. It's bad enough that they should be summarily arrested and "roughed up" on suspicion, without allowing our most thuggish psychos loose on them.
But they're English! Our troops, don't you know? On your blogs, if it had happend on your patch, there would have been an uproar on your blogosphere, and I'm not sure the MSM would have been quite so degenerate as to hail the perpetrators and their superiors as martyred heroes.
Incidentally, though some have been acquitted by the court martial, and I believe the case is ongoing against others, I believe one soldier had the integrity to own up to being guilty of a war crime, the first ever on record (though wars, of course, particularly by countries with an imperialist history, must be choc-a-bloc with them). But an asymmetric war????!!! Where most of the time they're just guessing who the enemy/freedom fighter is?!!!
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