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2004-08-13 Iraq-Jordan

Iraqi Captors Free Lebanese, Syrian Drivers

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Posted by Fred 2004-08-13 07:22|| || Front Page|| [11134 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Why is it that those who live to tell their tale always state that they were well-treated?

Posted by Gentle 2004-08-13 11:41:02 AM|| 2004-08-13 11:41:02 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Key words: "those who live to tell their tale".
I dunno? Maybe they're glad THEY DIDN'T HAVE THEIR HEADS CUT OFF!
But that's just a guess...

Posted by tu3031 2004-08-13 11:54:54 AM|| 2004-08-13 11:54:54 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 WRONG. They should be more than happy to abuse those who kidnapped them.

Posted by Gentle 2004-08-13 11:56:32 AM|| 2004-08-13 11:56:32 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 I'll let the other folks here to deal with you today. I don't suffer fools too well .

Posted by tu3031 2004-08-13 12:09:02 PM|| 2004-08-13 12:09:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Then how can you bear yourself?
It must be a constant struggle.
I don't envy you.

Posted by Gentle 2004-08-13 12:10:37 PM|| 2004-08-13 12:10:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Gentle, arguing with you would be like arguing with a bag of cement. I'd prefer not to waste my time. So... buh-bye.

Posted by tu3031 2004-08-13 12:14:26 PM|| 2004-08-13 12:14:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 I don't know Gentle, why?

Posted by anonymous 2004-08-13 12:18:35 PM|| 2004-08-13 12:18:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Maybe, just maybe, its because they actually do treat them well.
Contrast that to the way American Guards treat the Iraqis and THINK of what both actions tell about each nation.

Posted by Gentle 2004-08-13 12:21:32 PM|| 2004-08-13 12:21:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Fart, Gentle!
Our soldiers treated the Iraqis just fine.
Any kind of Arab Muslim jails aren't known for their humane treatment of prisoners--far from from it!

Posted by GreatestJeneration 2004-08-13 12:23:43 PM|| [http://www.greatestjeneration.com] 2004-08-13 12:23:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Um, Gentle, I don't recall the Americans at Abu Ghraib tying their prisoners' hands behind their backs and decapitating them, recording it on video, and posting it to news organisations.

Why is it that those who live to tell their tale always state that they were well-treated?

I can't speak for anyone else, but if I'd just got out from the clutches of classic psychopaths, the sort of men who calmly hack their 'guests' heads off, I'd be pretty thankful too.

Posted by Bulldog 2004-08-13 12:27:51 PM|| 2004-08-13 12:27:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Do you really call what England did really fine?

Posted by Gentle 2004-08-13 12:28:10 PM|| 2004-08-13 12:28:10 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 No, the guards at Abu ghraib hid thier crimes because there was no logic or reason behind them.
Not that logic would make murder allright, just a little bit less scary.

Posted by Gentle 2004-08-13 12:30:23 PM|| 2004-08-13 12:30:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Gentle, arguing with you would be like arguing with a bag of cement.

Personally I find the bag of cement far more capable of well reasoned discourse...

Posted by Raj 2004-08-13 12:33:05 PM|| 2004-08-13 12:33:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Gentle,

Which to you prefer:

1) We line the up in front of a ditch and shoot them in the back of the head.

2) We gouge out their daughters eyes right in front of them in order to get them to talk.

3) We organize rape squads to go out and collect innocent young (virgin) girls to be the guest of honor at a 'rape room'.

4) We (or a few misfits) place women's panties on top of their heads.

Hint: 1 - 3 where apparent standard operating procedure for the Saddam (arab) regime. 4) was conducted by a few misfit soldiers under a incompetent officer over the course of a few days. Not to say 4) was not bad - it was - but the people involved are being punished.

Posted by CrazyFool 2004-08-13 12:34:15 PM|| 2004-08-13 12:34:15 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 Gentle, is it OK to cut their heads off as long as you treat them well beforehand, and you do the cutting politely?

Also, did it ever occur to you that maybe the victims (or are they not victims) that say they were well-treated say that because they are worried about other victims still in the custody of their kidnappers?

Also, not all of them say they were well-treated.

Posted by anonymous 2004-08-13 12:35:20 PM|| 2004-08-13 12:35:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 A few US guards were guilty of light abuse and they're being punished, whereas torture and murder are SOP in Arab Muslim jails all day, every day in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Syria, Sudan, Saddam's Iraq, Afghanistan under the Taliban, Iran and I dare say the UAE.
Nor do our sentences--even as occupiers--require that people be stoned to death, or that their hands and feet be chopped off or that they be executed by beheading as Muslim countries under shari'a do.

Posted by GreatestJeneration 2004-08-13 12:39:14 PM|| [http://www.greatestjeneration.com] 2004-08-13 12:39:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 im try that agin
you burghers dont understand the nuances that gen tile brings to the goat pit

Posted by Half 2004-08-13 1:53:17 PM|| 2004-08-13 1:53:17 PM|| Front Page Top

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Posted by Half 2004-08-13 1:51:34 PM|| 2004-08-13 1:51:34 PM|| Front Page Top

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