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Originally posted by pocon1
Ok, let's get some perspective here. What these soldiers did was reprehensible and undeniably wrong. However, most of the prisoners were unharmed and only humiliated. These are the same Iraqis who strung up our troops from a bridge and dance on our helicopters when they shoot them down. (snip...)
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Thank you. There have been some statements about pictures showing a body after a prisoner was alleged to have been beaten to death. I have not heard about this on the news, and if true, that would be a different situation than what I have heard and read about these humiliating photographs. I know that these actions will make it more difficult for the U.S. to complete its mission there, and I really wish they had not done those things, but I had a different reaction to this than most other people it seems. I hate to sound cold and insensitive, but taking humiliating pictures of them is a far cry from celebrating by dragging bodies through streets, or raping female prisoners, or the torture common in Iraqi prisons under Saddam, or the torture of American prisoners at the hands of other nations. The Iraqi prisoner's identities were even concealed. (humane humiliation?) To the outraged Arabs and Islamic peoples of the world, I want to say, "Wah! Cry me a damn river!"
Though it was still wrong, the fact that these military guards' actions are being investigated and dealt with, it seems to me, is a sign of the difference between a civilized society and one that is, well, not.