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2007-06-20 Iraq

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Posted by Steve White 2007-06-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top
File under: Iraqi Insurgency

#1 ".....there were three people that were cooking themselves food, but nothing for the kids,' Lt. Stephen Duperre said."

STRING 'EM UP!

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2007-06-20 02:15|| 2007-06-20 02:15|| Front Page Top

#2 jesus did you see those poor kids... God Damn the islamic bastards responsible.

Posted by Red Dawg">Red Dawg 2007-06-20 04:29|| 2007-06-20 04:29|| Front Page Top

#3 SeeBS probably showed this because the concentration camp was run by Iraqis nominally on OUR side, not Al Quaeda or Iran. It's a valid point - corruption seems worse on the gov't side ("It's an Arab thing, you just wouldn't understand.") and associated disregard for human values seems not a whole lot different. Until these problems can be successfully addressed I have doubts about the prospects for overall mission success.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2007-06-20 07:22|| 2007-06-20 07:22|| Front Page Top

#4 Glenmore, we're going to be there at least a generation, God willing. It'll take at least that long to change a culture going back to the bronze age.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-06-20 09:11|| 2007-06-20 09:11|| Front Page Top

#5 TW: Do you think if the Dhimmicrats take the Potus and increase their lead in Congress we will be there for a generation? I sure don't and I don't buy the theory that you have get a dhimmicrat elected Potus to get them behing the WoT. They will bolt and turn our security and foreign policy over to the UN, EU and OAS before they assume any leadership responsibility. I mean that is their tendency now, past and in the future.

Posted by Jack is Back!">Jack is Back! 2007-06-20 11:51|| 2007-06-20 11:51|| Front Page Top

#6 Ladies and gentlemen, don't be surprised. I saw such maltreatment in Vietnam, Panama, and here in the US of A. It's not an "Arab" thing, but a "human" thing. There are corrupt people who think nothing of doing vile things to children to enrich themselves. They don't deserve a rope - they deserve 20 strands of razor wire wrapped around their scrawny necks, and hanged from the nearest telephone pole until they rot. My wife and I became foster-parents because there ARE people like this in every society. We only stopped when we could no longer handle it. Now we're back into it, too old, too tired, but not immune to the need.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2007-06-20 13:40|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2007-06-20 13:40|| Front Page Top

#7 Old Patiot, my aside on the 'Arab thing' was a NYT-liberal reference to the corruption, not to the inhumanity. And I do know that both characteristics are by no means limited to Arabs.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2007-06-20 21:51|| 2007-06-20 21:51|| Front Page Top

#8 If the Democrats take the White House? I have no idea, Jack is back. I hope they will see no alternative to staying the course President Bush laid out, but... I'm voting the WoT ticket until further notice.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-06-20 22:08|| 2007-06-20 22:08|| Front Page Top

#9 Too bad the soldiers would have gotten into a lot of trouble if they had just gutshot every adult in the building.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-06-20 22:59|| 2007-06-20 22:59|| Front Page Top

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