U.S. criticized for handling of child detainees in Iraq »
Posted By monte-g 4 months, 3 weeks 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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libsRfunny4 months, 3 weeks ago
Torture is what Saddam would have done to them followed by murdering them and their families.
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BB644 months, 3 weeks ago
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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Cherub54014 months, 3 weeks ago
Blaming Saddam for his inhuman acts and then following the same line and that too against children...opens our double-face of the US. Isn't it????
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walden34 months, 3 weeks ago
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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pcknowledge4 months, 3 weeks ago
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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pcknowledge4 months, 3 weeks ago
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oops meant to neg your comment. Iraq was better of under Saddam then it has been since Bush's invasion.
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Endoscopy4 months, 3 weeks ago
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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walden34 months, 3 weeks ago
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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joeblowe4 months, 3 weeks ago
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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Wolfie20074 months, 3 weeks ago
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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bill29364 months, 3 weeks ago
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unome24 months, 3 weeks ago
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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Edmar144 months, 3 weeks ago
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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unome24 months, 3 weeks ago
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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Dionys4 months, 3 weeks ago
" 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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