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DuctapeFatwa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-03 01:54 PM
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Mystery surrounds U.S. prison camps in Iraq
The lawyer, gone to the prison on other business, says he saw the man sitting in his long overshirt in the dust of the cellblock yard, a heavy man in his 60s, sunken, weary.

"He called to me. I went over," Fawzi al-Musawi said. He could see the prisoner's right foot was bandaged, putrid with gangrene, apparently from a circulatory ailment.

"He asked if I could help. He said, `They accuse me of being a Baathist. I'm not a Baathist.'" But before al-Musawi could even ask his name, an American soldier rushed up and angrily ordered the lawyer away....

"They break into people's houses, arrest people, put black bags on their heads, tie their hands, carry them off in a tank, and the families know nothing about where they're taken,"...Even al-Beldawi, who wishes the harshest punishment for Baathists responsible for killing countless Iraqis, including many of his relatives, said the only justice is that which distinguishes guilt from innocence....
"When I went to Rusafa prison, I saw two men I knew, senior Baathists," he said. "These were good, honest, intelligent men. They wouldn't hurt anybody. They were just sitting there, handcuffed to each other in their underwear, unshaven, looking exhausted. It was painful for me. They don't deserve this.''


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UpInArms Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-03 02:26 PM
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1. sounds a lot like what SH was doing -
have we just become what we say we destroyed?

The history that our government writes today will forever be a stain upon our country.

:(
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izzie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-03 02:29 PM
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2. Stormtrooper? My country or who is running it make me ill.
:mad:
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DuctapeFatwa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-03 02:39 PM
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3. Zero tolerance for anti-American sentiment

I bet if you looked closely, you would find that all these detainees had been suspected of harboring some, and are in fact, so recalcitrant that they STILL do not support the Coalition.

Harsher measures are called for. We can assume that their families are also being detained and interrogated.

Anti-Coalitionism is pre-terror and must be rooted out, at home and abroad.

If you know someone who may be guilty of this crime, please notify Homeland Security immediately so that they and their families can be apprehended and detained indefinitely for intensive interrogation.
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0007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-03 03:03 PM
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4. 'Yes sir, this is a job for democracy -
The Uniter has brought us honesty and integrity, and that's something to be proud of, 'eh?
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radwriter0555 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-03 03:56 PM
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5. Hitler's Germany redux... The Bush Dream!
Ain't it COOL how the bush regime can recreate nazi germany all over again?
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Aidoneus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-03 04:36 PM
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6. cute, our own "zachistki"
Edited on Thu Oct-09-03 04:40 PM by Aidoneus
:puke:
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leftchick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-03 04:59 PM
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7. one madman's regime replaced by another's...
No wonder anti-American sentiment pervades Iraq. Wake the hell up murkins....
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OneBlueSky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-03 05:22 PM
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8. damned civilized of the US, don'tcha think?
sometimes I'm ashamed to call myself an American . . .
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