Jumping to conclusions in Iraq

Deciding before the whole story is known...

Published on April 30, 2004 By Draginol In Current Events

Some Iraqi POWs were "abused" by American soliders. Bad. Right?

But how much do we know? For all people know, these Iraqi POWs were the ones who burned those American civilians to death and then dragged them through the street and had them hung upside down from a bridge for days.

The point is, we don't know. Something clearly made these particular POWs hated beyond belief. Hated to the point where the soldiers felt an unordinary amount of freedom to humiliate these particular POWs.

That doesn't excuse what happened by any means. But the US has a very good track record for its treatement of POWs. I've seen a lot of articles expressing outrage and condemnation of the US because of this incident. Strangely, I didn't see that same indignation when the 4 American civilian contractors were brutally burned to death and hung from a bridge (for the crime of trying to set up food shipments to the city).

So don't be too quick to rush to judgement. There is more to this situation than meets the eye.

Comments (Page 3)

dcarst1

on May 05, 2004

Oh by the way, whoever put up that Dostoevsky quote...awesome. Everybody sould read Dostoevsky, its interesting stuff

StopRapingIraq

on May 21, 2004

70% to 90% of the abused Iraqi prisoners were innocent of any crime. They were picked up in house-to-house raids by U.S. military looking for weapons.

The Blackwater mercenaries were providing security for food shipments to U.S. military personnel, not Iraqi citizens.

They were legitimate combatant targets to the Iraqis fighting the illegal U.S. occupation and take-over of their countries oil industry by U.S. corporations with the U.S. military killing off any dissenters to absolute rule by Bremer.

The bodies were already dead and burned by the explosion.

That's a lot different that the homosexual rape of innocent Iraqi prisoners by sadistic untrained MPs and interrogators.

Draginol

on May 21, 2004

Incorrect. 70% to 90% of the people in that prison may (MAY) be innocent of any crime. But we do not know much on the people who were actually abused. Mark my words, this is going to boomerang on people. There are already eye witness reports from soldiers who have reported that the abused prisoners they knew of were pretty monstrous.

Pity you seem incapable of differntiating between "Abuse" and murder.

on May 21, 2004

Anthony R. That picture sums the difference very well.

Of course, abuse of any kind is wrong.

Jay Walker

on Jun 28, 2004

So don't be too quick to rush to judgement. There is more to this situation than meets the eye.

... and you would know this how?

bakerstreet

on Jun 28, 2004

"... and you would know this how?"

Because unlike other experts here, closet economists and otherwise, Brad understands that the public isn't privy to all the details, and that this is much more complex.

That's something that can easily be understood by devil's advocates in terms of terrorists, but oddly anything an American does is quickly definable, damnable. If you have to "look at the whole picture" when you talk about people who murder innocents, maybe the same behavior is preferable in this case. Until you have the whole picture, maybe you don't know what you are talking about.

Ya think?

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