POWs

[Alexander's Horse]

What most of you don't understand is dealing with a guy trying to surrender is one of the most dangerous and tense situations on the battlefield. You never know if they are for real and to deal with them you have let them get up very close to you or your troops, for searches and so forth.

[KrazyHorse]

What's your point, AH?

I never claimed that soldiers should be omniscient. If they need to make every prisoner strip naked and handcuff themselves before they are allowed to approach, then so be it. And if somebody's approaching you in an Iraqi uniform carrying a rifle then I doubt anybody could say that it's your responsibility to stand up and give him the opportunity to shoot you in order to determine if he's brave or just stupid.

[Dis]

why won't the U.S. media show the video?

I want to see it. I think it is important for the U.S. to see it. Perhaps the ugly reality of war would sway more americans to be anti-war. Not that I'm anti-war. I just like to be fair to their cause.

[Kramerman]

Originally posted by Dissident
why won't the U.S. media show the video?

I want to see it. I think it is important for the U.S. to see it. Perhaps the ugly reality of war would sway more americans to be anti-war. Not that I'm anti-war. I just like to be fair to their cause.

it could also sway some to be more for the war, in anger.

[Dis]

hmm that could happen too

Fox News did show the picture of the dead soldiers. I was shocked they did that. But that's fox news for ya.

does anyone know where I can find that video? I would like to see it.

[alva]

They didn't show it, because the relatives were not informed yet.

[Gangerolf]

cnn showed the pows yesterday

[Gangerolf]

harsh language in the new york post...

[Lefty Scaevola]

Originally posted by Uncle Sparky
Speculate - G.W. Bush stated today, rather succinctly, that anyone treating POW inappropriately will be tried as war criminals. If he is faced with incontrovertible proof that coalition forces inflicted mistreat upon Iraqi POWs, would he send them to The Hague ?

The vast majotiy of warcrimes are tried before military tribunnals either of their own nationality or that of an enemy affected by the crime. International tribunnal are usually used for crimes against humanity, or where there is no effective prosecutorial and courts system, or no willingness to use them, among the parties.

[St Leo]

Originally posted by Peter Triggs


No, no. Thats our reaction to all foreigners.

Bush: Howdy, Mbassada.
Ambassador: Do... you... speak... English?
Bush: Ha ha. G'joke. Fanee.
Ambassador: Do... you... understand... what... I... am... saying?
Bush: Ack to biznez.
Ambassador: Someone get me a translator.

[Dis]

I'll ask this here.

Why is a single mother in a combat zone? WTF!

[Dis]

ahh here is a POW thread.

CNN just showed interviews with the family. Pure exploitation of the family. Yet I'm watching it for some reason.

And I didn't realize that in Gulf War I there was a female POW. She was sexually assaulted- not too big a suprise.

[VetLegion]

But now they are actually attacking the BBC as well, well known for not having bias. I wonder what is next

US/UK media is openly cheering. What about that guy that said 'we' are attacking Iraq. Or, upon finding a few gas-masks in an abandoned Iraqi trench, the BBC reporter said that 'it indicates that even Sadams soldiers were expecting him to use Chemical weapons'

And the POW thing. USA prisoners were the big news of the day. They deserved at least as much time on air as that same footage of Iraquis we saw a million times.


CNN is so pro-war and pro-american and in service of propaganda that I wish I knew more languages and wasnt condemned to that.

[Willem]

Originally posted by VetLegion

CNN is so pro-war and pro-american and in service of propaganda that I wish I knew more languages and wasnt condemned to that.

For a web site, try Reuters. I've seen a few articles there that weren't always flattering to the coalition cause.

[MichaeltheGreat]

Originally posted by Dissident
I'll ask this here.

Why is a single mother in a combat zone? WTF!

She's a CSS soldier.