2005-10-20
U.S. War Crimes Continue
The US Defence Department said reports that US troops burned the bodies of two suspected Taliban fighters and used the charred corpses in a propaganda campaign in Afghanistan are being "aggressively investigated".
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"Deadly riots broke out in Afghanistan earlier this year after US troops were accused of desecrating Islam's holy book, the Koran."
Yep, just as with the bogus Newsweek reports about "flushed Korans" I'll bet that's what the writer of this article's goal is with the "accusations" it contains. Let's see how much upheaval we can cause. Then, even if these accusations turn out not to be true, it won't matter at that point. The damage will already have been done.
There was footage of the burning corpses shown on Austrailian television.
I haven't found a copy yet online, but I'm looking...
I watched an episode of PBS' "Front Line" the other day. I think that the Bushies have not only failed to ensure against torture, they are advocating it. If the US military can't be better than the Taliban -- MUCH, MUCH, better -- then we have no moral authority to sell and impose democracy in another country. I'm embarrassed by the guy, Bush, who convinced me to support his invasions. I assumed, incorrectly, that he would have the sense to make non-torture and minimum civilian causulties top priorities. On this issue, only we war supporters can have any hope of making progress, because the peaceniks find fault always with the American govt, even when there is none, never have anything good to say, except about totalitarian leftist governments, with which they find no fault (except that which they ultimately blame on the US). Thus I urge my fellow capitalist pigs and war enthusiasts to loudly insist on ending torture by US forces.
(How retarded would you have to be to riot because somebody put a book in a toilet? The christian nuts would not do this in the US, but imagine if they did, how the left would howl!)
Um, maybe it's just me, but shouldn't you wait and see if there is any truth to this story/accusation before flying off the handle?
And if it does end up being true, then I'm sure the perpetrators will be dealt with harshly. That's the difference between us and the enemy. When one of our own goes astray and commits heinous acts, they are punished accordingly.
Right.
Like Nixon was punished for his role in Watergate.
Like Ollie North was punished for his role in the Iran/Contra scandal.
Like George W. Bush has been punished for ruining the U.S. economy and placing us in two illegal wars of aggression.
Like Donald Rumsfeld has been punished for advocating torture by American troops.
Like Karl Rove has been punished for leaking the name of a CIA agent.
Like Ken Lay has been punished for his role in bankrupting thousands of people during the Enron scandal.
Need I go on?
No, that's okay, you've mentioned enough irrelevant examples already.
You could have at least thrown in at least couple of Democrats for good measure though, just to eliminate any evidence of bias.
This incident may indeed turn out to be false, and yes, the islaminazies are 10,000 times worse than any misdeeds committed by the US military (especially considering the different goals). And yes, Nadir will only spot one sort of bad action, that committed by the US military, and one sort of good, which will be a fun description of the evils committed by the islaminazis (decaptiation = self-determination). But I expect the US military to not just be better than the islaminazies, I expect our soldiers to commit ZERO torture.
I agree with Paul.
The reason we are having this discussion in the first place is because U.S. soldiers were caught on tape burning corpses in violation of the Geneva Convention and Islamic burial rights. When the same thing happened to U.S. mercenaries in Iraq, Americans (you guys included) were livid.
Shouldn't the U.S. be avoiding even the appearance of such dispicable behavior - especially after the furor that followed Abu Ghraib and the current hunger strike at Guantanamo? This is obviously not another reprehensible act by "rogue individuals". There is a pattern to this behavior that we have seen in different theaters of this "war on terror".
As Paul said, the soldiers who are supposed to be fighting against terror and torture are using those tactics for their own aims.
Have you seen the video yet? I'll believe it when I see it.
Haven't found the footage yet. It was on the Austrailian show "Dateline". They have published a transcript on their site, but not the video footage. It aired last night on the show in Austrailia.
Do you only belive what you see with your own eyes?
Nadir: Now that the facts are in, I've changed my mind a bit on this. The US troops were burning corpses that had been lingering about. I assume that the corpses were not those of people trying to bring freedom and rule of law to Iraq, but rather those of people attempting to kill those who would have freedom in Iraq. The burning of US troops did not bother me before simply because I am outraged by burning corpses; I was outraged that they were killed in the first place. People in Iraq and elsewhere who are upset that US troops would burn some corpses of terrorists should be 10,000 times more concerned that the terrorists there are preventing freedom.
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