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| Iraq |
| Some pople are just born American, but in a wrong place |
| 2007-08-11 |
| Posted by:twobyfour |
| #2 If you give average Iraqis electricity right now it will be enough. This is the most important thing. Give them power for seven days in a row and there will be no fights. .. Giving them electricity would reduce violence. If you donÂ’t believe me, ask yourself what would happen to this Army base if the power was cut off forever and the soldiers had to spend the rest of their lives in Iraq. Do think think these soldiers would still behave normally? Iraqis are paid to set up IEDs. They do it so they can buy gas for their generator and cool off their house or leave the country. Their hands do this, not their minds. TV is the most interesting thing to Iraqis. They learn everything from the TV. Right now they only have one hour of electricity every day. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2007-08-11 14:31 |
| #1 “Charge money to the families of insurgents. Fine them huge amounts of money if anyone in their family is captured or killed and identified as an insurgent. Make them pay. You can put it into law. Within one week they won’t do anything wrong because they want money. Their familes will make them stop.” Problem is, that kind of collective punishment has other forms which should not be encouraged in the general region-think of the judgments in Pakistan where one person in the family commits a crime, and then a child from that family is given as a bride or concubine to the victim’s family to abuse as they wish. I agree that the “families of insurgents” are key to change, but we need to be a bit careful about holding one man responsible for the crimes of another man. “They raped her, all 60 guys. Then they cut her to pieces and threw her in the river. They left the six month baby boy to sleep in her blood. We found him on a big farm south of Baghdad. All that was left was his legs and his shoes. The dogs ate him. I don’t want this for my family. These people are like animals who came from another planet.” Yes, they are. They see flesh as a commodity to be used or disposed of as they please. |
| Posted by: Jules 2007-08-11 12:04 |