U.S. criticized for handling of child detainees in Iraq »
Posted By monte-g 1 year, 5 months ago in NewsA humanitarian watchdog group on Wednesday raised concerns over the U.S. military's handling of juvenile detainees in Iraq, saying "some children have been detained for more than a year without charge or trial."
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BB641 year, 5 months ago
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First off, for most areas in Iraq, being bombed to the stoneage would be an improvement. Before you start singing the praises of Saddam Hussein, you do realize that Baghdad doesn't have a sewer system. This wasn't caused by the US, Saddam never built one.
As to torture, things you saw in the Abugrab photos were nothing compared to Saddam's methods. Prisoners before their "confession" ofter were raped, both men and women. If a male prisoner wouldn't talk, generally his wife, mother, daughters or other female relative or relatives were raped in front of them until a confession happened. Electrical shocks to the privates, amputations of male parts was another fun one. Executions often included the entire family, clan or village.
I think that when they're arrested they're released is a far better alternative to Saddam's methods.
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walden31 year, 5 months ago
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I guess it's better than having a lighstick shoved up your butt, or having to wear a dog collar, or being drowned.
Just trying to build tomorrow's terrorists today.
What a mess this president and his supporters have gotten us into.
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BB641 year, 5 months ago
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Walden, Saddam would have raped, tortured and executed the convicts entire family. On that note from your statements, are you saying Iraq was better off with that type of leader? We could cut & run leaving the country to Iran. I suppose that would make you happy.
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Endoscopy1 year, 5 months ago
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Hamas teaches children from the time they can walk to hate. In Palestine 50% of 6 and up want to become suicide bombers. Their mothers are proud of this aim and encourage it. This is the type of people we are dealing with. Remember they sent two retarded girls into a pet market in Iraq with bombs tied around them and blew them up by remote control.
We should just ignore these kinds of things. Typical liberal. Everybody is peaceful. All children are innocent.
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joeblowe1 year, 5 months ago
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Improper treatment of young potential terrorists is just plain STUPID! They SHOULD be housed in a McMansion, given lots of fatty snacks, and allowed to play (non-violent) video games all day. Indoctrinate them into OUR way of life. That way, when they grow up, they will want to JOIN us instead of DESTROY us. Sometimes I wonder which toilet the people we put in charge fished their brains out of.
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Wolfie20071 year, 5 months ago
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A couple of years ago I saw a television news piece regarding two teenagers at Gitmo who were pick up in the initial Afghanistan invasion. They were being sent back home to Afghanistan but were reluctant to leave as they had made friends with some of the the marines stationed there. They had been having a great time the marines had taught them to surf and these kids didn't stay in the prison compound with the rest of the detainees. I think maybe this article is bullsheet.
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Rayman1 year, 5 months ago
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Let's see, we invaded and destroyed Iraq for no reason. We destabalized the entire Middle East to protect oil fields. We tortuted Iraqi civilians, including children. Yet, we still claim to be the most 'civilized nation on earth'! What's wrong with this picture?
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bill29361 year, 5 months ago
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Some child detainee are about to be freed:
http://www.kxan.com/global/story.asp?s=8365745
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unome21 year, 5 months ago
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First of all, we should all be ashamed with ourselves for allowing this horrible, illegal and immoral occupation and genocide to continue. Anyone who has not realized that the war on terror is a farce and that 9-11 was an inside job is living in some kind of dream world. Please google 9-11 for yourselves because you will not get this information from your corporately controlled boob tube.
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Edmar141 year, 5 months ago
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Please, please, please show us conclusive, absolute proof that 9/11 was an inside job. I get very tired of people making statements that they either heard, read or were told about. The reputation of this country is as important as your reputation is to you. If you are ever tried in an American court, you will expect that the proof be beyond a reasonable doubt. This country deserves the same standards as you demand. Unless you can prove beyond a reasonable doubt that 9/11 was an inside job, and I don't mean quoting from Counterpunch, Anti-War and the rest of those web based garbage publications, I suggest that you use some of your own brain cells and ponder if this country is as deviant as you would like to us believe it to be. All of the information that I have been priviliged to review says that it wasn't anything close to an inside job.
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