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Posted By monte-g 1 year, 7 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, 7 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, 7 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, 7 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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walden31 year, 7 months ago
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Yeah, to be honest with you I preferred the costs and benefits of the policy of containment. His country was cut in three by no fly zones. The weapons inspectors were running around. We probably wouldn't have lost the 4,000 troops, the tens of thousands wounded and borrowing $2,000,000,000 a week from our enemies for it. How much would gas be without the instability?
Yeah, I think the US was better off with Saddam in power. Crazy isn't it?
Of course who knows where Iraq may be in 10, 20 or 50 years, so the final chapter hasn't been written.
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pcknowledge1 year, 7 months ago
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When Saddam was in power, the Iraqis where free to leave the country. Iraqis who disliked Saddam left Iraq. Since Bush's invasion, thousands of Iraqis civilians died. Bush's shock & awe strategy killed thousands. After that, a civil war broke out. There is a power vacuum that hasn't been filled yet.
The Iraqis won't allow us to decide who will lead them next. We should get out & let them decide what to do with their country.
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Endoscopy1 year, 7 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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walden31 year, 7 months ago
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I'm not a liberal. I'm a realist. A businessman. I like to collect information, analyze the information, make projections, measure results and make adjustments.
When I consider all of the above it appears to me that Saddam Hussein was doing a fine job of keeping the suicide bombers in Iraq to a minimum prior to us getting sticking our noses into it.
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joeblowe1 year, 7 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, 7 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, 7 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, 7 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, 7 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, 7 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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unome21 year, 7 months ago
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Please do not think for one second that I do not love this country, I do not take this accusation lightly nor do I have any more truth to 9-11 than any who have looked at the evidence. Obviously there is a vast amount of evidence that is withheld by the government, for what reason I am not sure, however after rationally looking at the evidence I can come to only one conclusion. Either the government wants to appear guilty of the mass murder that was 9-11 or they are guilty.
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Endoscopy1 year, 7 months ago
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ROTFLMAO
Another conspiracy buff. The government did it.
Get with the real world. There are basic facts available to anyone. That data is absolutely clear that those planes brought them down.
The jet fuel started a huge fire and the other fuel for the fire that was part of the building made it so hot that the steel beams could actually melt. That is a fact that you can find on the internet about the temperature of burning buildings. Firemen use this data and help create it. At that point the building pancaked like many other buildings have that lost structural integrity.
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Dionys1 year, 7 months ago
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" This country deserves the same standards as you demand. Unless you can prove beyond a reasonable doubt that 9/11 was an inside job "
I hear you on that beyond a reasonable doubt thing.
Now don't you wish they'd applied that kind of evidentiary requirement before getting us bogged down in a near endless (so far) war of aggression?
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Edmar141 year, 7 months ago
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I will never argue the point that getting into this war was pointless, completely wrong and just plain stupid. However, I can tell you from factual evidence that 9/11 was not an inside job, and anybody who deludes themselves into thinking that it was should consult the experts who unequivicably know that it wasn't. While Kennedy's assassination could be questionable as was Lincoln's, the very magnitude of 9/11 would preclude it from being an inside job if anybody understands how this country works. Plus the fact that reputable engineers, historians and other noteworthy individuals have sifted through the evidence and it's not a question as far as they are concerned. The evidence is overwhelmingly evident that it couldn't have been an inside job. There are and have always been conspiracy theorists who peddle their interpretation of the facts in order to make it fit their agenda. We have people on this thread who do the same thing constantly.
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Endoscopy1 year, 7 months ago
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He killed a lot of Kurds in northern Iraq with WMD. Over 5000 shells of chemical and biological material have been found. Except for the first 500 that were given a blip in the news the media ignores it because it would strengthen Bush's veracity. Typical libs.
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