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2004-05-07 Iraq-Jordan

Iraqi Abuse Victim: I Want to Live in America

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Posted by tipper 2004-05-07 5:05:34 AM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 No, I don't think you'd want to come here. We're a nation of torturers and perverts. You're much better off in Nasiriya, or better yet, one of the many holy cities in Iraq...

Posted by RMcLeod 2004-05-07 6:14:57 AM|| 2004-05-07 6:14:57 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 I think he's got a good chance of getting some compensation if he's one of those in the photos. Anyone agree?

Posted by BruceBruce 2004-05-07 9:08:02 AM|| 2004-05-07 9:08:02 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 I guess he hasn't heard about our NASCAR races where we randomly pick Arabs from the crowd and use them as bumpers.

Posted by Bill Nelson 2004-05-07 9:41:45 AM|| 2004-05-07 9:41:45 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Does he have any proof that he was one of the 'abused' victims?

I mean he still has his eyes -- didn't we gorge them out like Saddam would have done?

Posted by CrazyFool 2004-05-07 10:10:47 AM|| 2004-05-07 10:10:47 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 no my guess is he enjoyed every bit of it and now wants more.

Posted by sakattack 2004-05-07 11:17:21 AM|| 2004-05-07 11:17:21 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 "Despite it all, he said he would not refuse an offer to move to America."

He knows our immigration laws are never enforced.
We may find at some later time he came across the border from Mexico.

Posted by BigEd 2004-05-07 11:41:54 AM|| 2004-05-07 11:41:54 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 He found out he can have a lucrative career in homeerotic porn.

Posted by Anonymous4021 2004-05-07 1:11:47 PM|| 2004-05-07 1:11:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 You all are missing the point. He understands we have an enviable civilization where he won't have to play the honor/shame game. He know that these were a few bad soldiers, who don't represent this great country -- and he'd like to live here. I say, let him.

Posted by cingold 2004-05-07 2:39:32 PM|| 2004-05-07 2:39:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Wants to be relocated in the Castro (in SF).

Posted by Mr. Davis 2004-05-07 4:19:11 PM|| 2004-05-07 4:19:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 You've heard of the Stockholm Syndrome? This is an example of the Abu Ghraib Syndrome.

Posted by Tresho 2004-05-07 8:48:03 PM|| 2004-05-07 8:48:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Nah, Tresho. I really don't think it's identification with the aggressor. He doesn't want to hang out with his abusers, or protect them. He wants to come to a country where (even though he was a prisoner) the guys and gals that did this to him are "toast."

Posted by cingold 2004-05-07 9:04:41 PM|| 2004-05-07 9:04:41 PM|| Front Page Top

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