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Not a silver lining at all, but it does put things into perspective.
Let's see, US personnel put naked men in pyramids and put panties on their heads. Iraqis fuck young Iraqi boys in the ass against their will.
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My point was that you had to dig pretty deep through SAM's quote to find that "perspective." Let's review.
"NBC News later quoted U.S. military officials as saying that the unreleased photographs showed American soldiers 'severely beating an Iraqi prisoner nearly to death, having sex with a female Iraqi prisoner, and ‘acting inappropriately with a dead body.’ The officials said there also was a videotape, apparently shot by U.S. personnel, showing Iraqi guards raping young boys.'"
As an occasional feminist, I'd have expected that you would be offended by soldiers having sex with a female prisoner, but maybe "consentual prison sex" is, in the expansive worldview you hold, OK under these circumstances.
There are also allegations about some 25 deaths occuring in the prison, though thankfully these have not yet been detailed on camera.
You've been quite determined about glomming on to images of panty-wearing prisoners to reach the safe harbor of your "perspective". Must these other acts appear in distributed photos/videos before you'll incorporate them into your worldview? If so, then your preference that cameras be banned is revealing.
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Let us also not forget what atrocities Iraqis perpetrated on other Iraqi's under SH's rule.
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I've not forgotten that, but repeating it brings me small comfort. As a barometer of human rights treatment, "we're better than Saddam" is a depressing standard.
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