Can you imagine their reaction if one of our troops did something like this? As reported by the LAT: An unnamed woman, her face shielded behind a curtain and her voice masked, gave a harrowing account today of torture and sexual abuse at the hands of Saddam Hussein’s security forces during the trial of the former Iraqi leader.
“They forced me to take off my clothes,” said the woman, referred to only as Witness A by the court. “They kept my legs up. They handcuffed me and started beating me with cables. It wasn’t just one guard, it was many guards.”
And this is only the beginning.
Actually, I wouldn’t be surprised if many of the moonbats think our troops have actually done this. Remember the Boston Globe inadvertantly publishing photos from a porn site when a Boston pol used them as “evidence” of US troops committing rape in Iraq?
(And, to be honest, there may have been cases of rape committed by US troops. With that many people, you’re going to get criminals. The difference lies in the US punishing the guilty, while Saddam’s regime promoted them.)
Amnesty International, European diplomats and the American left are far too concerned about a doaen AlQaida terrorists being picked on to worry about some bothersome madman like Saddam.
I wonder what goes in the prisons and jails in Spain and France? I remember when the trains were attacked in Spain the police there were getting all kinds of informaiton from all kinds of people.
I wonder how they managed it? Did anyone even ask?
doaen is supposed to dozen. I blame it on typekey.
The MSM is so fixated on the antics of Saddam and other Baathists on trial and the presence of Ramsay Clark that this seems like a rerun of the Jackson farce.
Justice Breyer the other day on C Span was interviewed by Brian Lamb and was not quick to endorse cameras in the Supreme Court. He showed an unease about the whole subject. Without saying it, one fairly surmised that the spectacle of the OJ and Jacko trials lives on in the minds of the judges and raises real concerns in many about
the ability of the American media to fairly and properly deal with justice on TV.
“Can you imagine their reaction if one of our troops did something like this?”
Imagine? Our troops already do do things like this. The reaction is either three months in prison or a demotion.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/22/AR2005052200784.html
Also we often send prisoners to other countries to do the dirty work of torturing for us.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/01/21/60II/main594974.shtml
Reds who worship Castro for his torturing of dissidents and who wet-dream of gulags and artificial famines and all that stuff that murdered from 85 million to 100 million citizens of commie-ruled countries occasionally try their hand at agitprop at places like this.
Meanwhile, here are some peacenik Saddamite blasts from the recent past:
– Confessions of an Anti-Sanctions Activist
http://www.meforum.org/article/548
by Charles M. Brown, Summer 2003, Middle East Forum
– Saddam’s parades of dead babies are exposed as a cynical charade http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/05/25/wirq25.xml
by Charlotte Edwards, filed May 25, 2003, the Telegraph (UK)
- Suffer The Children http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&biw=1150&q=%22Suffer+The+Children%22+%22Andrew+Bolt%22&btnG=Search
by Andrew Bolt, June 16, 2003, Herald Sun (Australia)
– Propagandizing Sanctions a.k.a. “Blood of Innocents” a.k.a. “MDs now blame Saddam, not sanctions, in babies’ deaths”
http://www.canadiangrassroots.ca/sections.php?op=viewarticle&artid=3562
by Matthew McAllester of Newsday, May 24, 2003, Sun Journal via Newsday and other newspapers
AJB shows the usual nuanced sense of proportion common to supporters of Saddam. Vicious tyrants are nothing to worry about; down with Amerikka. What a world.
C’mon folks. Human rights are only for “armed combatants” fighting to preserve the rule of the Taliban or opposing the cruel occupiers of holy Muslim soil anywhere on the planet.
Didn’t Human Rights Watch and/or AI both comment after Saddam’s fall that they knew about the special childrens’ prison at Abu Graib and other Saddam outrages, but say they kept mum for fear of being kicked out of the country where they would be unable to “help”. As though such an expulsion would not have been an effective signal that grave human rights violations were going on!