on the human rights watch organization site, buried under 7 pages of criticism of us involvement in iraq and the human rights abuses committed by the coalition forces since their invasion of the country, is an article entitled "Iraq: The Death Penalty, Executions, and 'Prison Cleansing'" from march 2003.
please read it. http://www.hrw.org/backgrounder/mena/iraq031103.htm behavior of the occupying, coalition forces in iraq is directly related to the conditions they found when they arrived there. i find it ironic (and indicative of the nature of the criticism brought against the us and the coalition forces) that the first american soldier to undergo a court marshall was the one who took the photographs - not the two soldiers shown in the photo. i'd like to know if those who criticize the coalition for their human rights abuses base their criticisms on some very disturbing photos or on the deeds that were committed in them. personally, i think it's the photos that piss you off. if it were the other way around then you would have to imagine all the photos in all the police stations and prisons and concentration camps in all the countries of the world - including your own - that were never taken. if, however, criticism of this behavior is based on an understanding that "they (the coalition) should know better" then i suggest you read rudyard kipling's "white man's burden " to experience again the pomposity and embarrassment of such a notion. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/Kipling.html anyone interested in buying a tiple from the canary islands? - bill On Marted�, giu 1, 2004, at 15:42 Europe/Rome, James A Stimson wrote: > > > > > Dear All: > In the highly entertaining "Picasso on Art" (Da Capo Press, 1972), in > which the artist's views and comments on art are meticulously > translated > into English, politics makes an occasional entry. Mostly it's Picasso's > rants against Nazis and fascists. But he also said "Guernica" was his > only > consciously political painting. > So sometimes the intrusion of politics is unavoidable, but hopefully > minimized. > Yours, > Jim > > >
