Quote: unrestrained id said: Perhaps the best reason to release the photos is that, until we do, we will never be able to comprehend the meaning of this story in full, never be able to truly put this behind us, and never be able to correct the wrongs.
Do you really think people don't see the fact that you're simply trying to defame the military?
Either that or you just get off on child rape, I'm not sure.
Defame the military?
I think the ones being defamed were the people being raped.
See, i'm of the opinion that either you keep this under wraps and this sort of inhumanity continues or you release it to a mass audience where the resulting shitstorm causes it to stop definatevely.
The arab street's reaction? The rest of the world? Do you really think they don't already know? No, the only ones caught oblivious are the average Americans being constantly propagandized and lied to about anything and everything going on in Iraq. In our name.
It almost makes me think that this Administration actively WANTS to radicalize the middle east.
You get this to stop by getting it to stop. And prosecuting some Seargent from Podunk Ala. and declaring it an "isolated incident" won't make it stop. Not in Iraq, not in Guantanamo, not in Diego Garcia or anywhere else. A mass media public scandal on the other hand will make it stop because we'll demand it to stop as one country and demand those who authorized it and legally justified this held to account, as it is not only inhumane and barbaric, but it is patently UnAmerican and against evrything we say we stand for.
Which is another difference. There are some (a very vocal minority) who say that those seeking this madnesss to cease are the UnAmerican ones. And the status quo and a hearty STFU is what they want.
See no evil. It's making us all safer you see.....
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