of the incidents have fairly extreme, including prisoners getting raped by
broom handles etc.
When that sort of thing happened here (e.g., the Abner Louema case in New
York for instance), the police officers who perpetrated it were sentenced to
a long time in prison, their superiors were canned and those above them were
reprimanded or demoted.
So are you saying that the media should not be reporting these abuses?
larry
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tangorre, Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 10:09 AM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: RE: POW Abuses in IRaq..
>
>
> You know what is even more troublesome in my opinion is the
> way the media sensationalizes EVERYTHING. War is nothing to
> be sensationalized; this world is bad enough right outside
> our very windows without seing images upon images and endless
> video of bombings, death, torture, etc; we know it is
> happening! It's a war for crying out loud.
>
>
>
> > No disagreement. However I want to emphasize the flip side to
> > this and am in no way diminishing the severity of this crime.
> > Currently there is a large outcry from the Arab world where
> > people from Cairo to Damascus are venting their anger towards
> > the treatment of Iraqi prisoners. Major media channels are
> > gathering such reactions. What they don't report on is worse
> > torture on a daily basis by these same governments on their
> > own people. The irony is that these states are not even at
> > war and the people tortured are their own citizens. I guess
> > the bigger irony is the mass amnesia by the very such people
> > who are on the receiving end of torture by their governments.
> > I don't believe their governments or even some of the
> > citizens have a right to take the moral higher ground.
> >
> > Changing subjects...
> > Interesting use of contractors to deflect criticism,
> > responsibility and code of conduct in a theatre of war. What
> > next, companies like Enron outsource their accounting
> > departments. This way they can direct such outfits to
> > continue with their fleecing and in case they are busted,
> > they can disown responsibility and still get to keep their jobs?
>
>
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