Sure, and they attached electrodes to his testicles and threatened to cut his head off, just like the "other kidnappers", right? Nice moral equivalency there, Dana.
Our soldiers are over there doing a great job in a very dangerous environment. In a conflict zone, mistakes happen, and as the filmmaker himself said, he thinks it was bureaucracy that was responsible for his extended detention. That doesn't surprise me at all. The military is as much a bureaucracy as any other government group. Sometimes it takes time to sort out problems like this. But then the guy goes overboard. He says he was treated inhumanely? Because a guard yelled at him and banged his head on a wall? Come off it. It's a shame the guy got stuck in the system, but that's all it is. Now he claims he's not an American, that being an American is an exclusive club and we don't "want" people of his ethnicicity? I just can't stand this culture of victimization. Everyone feels like they are a victim, everyone feels aggrieved. He should have understood the risks he faced in going to Iraq. As for getting stopped at a checkpoint with the timers in the trunk of the cab, that's bad luck, but a more experienced person might have thought about asking the driver of the cab to open the trunk so he could take a look inside. Or he might have thought about arranging for a driver who had been screened. I did some contract work in Dublin a few years ago. One day I went down to the Temple Bar section of town to look around. I had a small wheeled airline bag with my laptop in it, and it was a pain walking around with it. I went into a small hotel and asked if I could pay to check the bag in for a few hours while I looked around. The very first thing the girl at the front desk said to me was, "You haven't got a bomb in there, have you?" I was so surprised by the question I could barely answer, but I offered to let her have a look. She was satisified and I was able to leave my bag there, but I could see why she would have asked me that, and I could see how, under different circumstances, I could have been detained. I'm part Irish, and I certainly look it. I didn't even think about it at the time, but you can bet I will be very aware of that sensitivity if I go back to Dublin. (Although I did just read that the IRA has renounced violence, bravo for the political process). >yes. We just didn't know until this case that one of them was being >kidnapped by our own side. > >Dana > >On 7/28/05, Robert Munn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:167158 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
