The following news story is a good laugh. If you want to see the unashamed bias against anything positive the U.S. is doing, read on. When the contractors were killed in Iraq sometime ago (mind you non-combative contractors helping to RE-BUILD Iraq, a good thing) they were beaten, broken and dragged through the streets, hung from and bridge and basically put on display. Not ONE of the scum who now cry fowl stood up to raise a voice against it. Now we'll see who the hypocrites are, won't we?
In other news I could not give a rats butt about the burning of two terrorists bodies.
It's almost funny how socialist anti-everything American news rags love to bring in the Geneva Convention when speaking about us and how we choose to deal with terrorists. Last time I reviewed the Geneva Convention I don't remember it mentioning terrorists at all. Then again, I see this for what it is, a ratings boost to help SBS considering they have tanked lately.
The US Defence Department said reports that US troops burned the bodies of two suspected Taliban fighters and used the charred corpses in a propaganda campaign in Afghanistan, in footage aired on SBS television, are being "aggressively investigated".
The allegations are being probed by the Army Criminal Division, according to a statement from the coalition force based at the Bagram Airfield, north of Kabul.
"This command takes all allegations of misconduct or inappropriate behaviour seriously and has directed an investigation into circumstances surrounding this allegation," said Major General Jason Kamiya.
He said corrective action will be taken if the allegations are found to be true.
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Well I guess your right. Burning their bodies is better than cutting off ears, noses and other bodyparts.
You seem to not get this. Were fighting for the peoples, "hearts and minds." You dont earn that by burning their bodies, or at LEAST not by video taping it. In Islam, theyere supposed to be burrried within 24 hours. Now you have, "infadels" mishandling muslim bodies and burning them is sacrilege.
Were supposed to be, "better" than they are. Your not winning many "hearts and minds" by proverbially spitting in their face by burning the bodies.
Who knows what the impact will be, its not like much progess has been made in afghanistan anyway. The only area karzi is in control of, is Kabul. Large parts of the country are still under control of war lords.
Posted by: mooseboy84 at October 20, 2005 09:12 PM"Last time I reviewed the Geneva Convention I don't remember it mentioning terrorists at all."
Muddy seems to be the kind of guy that steals his/her client if there's nothing in the contract that explicitely mention that stealing is not allowed. He should've been a lawyer looking for procedural loop holes.
On top of it, I guess everybody has understood now that the right of each human to be buried in a decent manner is now a s o c i a l i s t claim... (s o c i a l i s t seems to be a functional equivalent to b a d and u g l y for muddy).
It's not as if sophocles had written some 2700 years ago about a political leader forbidding anyone to b u r r y a r e b e l and t e r r o r i s t ...
(long before s o c i a l i s m and modern t e r r o r i s m had been invented)
On top of it, I guess everybody has understood now that the right of each human to be buried in a decent manner is now a s o c i a l i s t claim... (s o c i a l i s t seems to be a functional equivalent to b a d and u g l y for muddy).
It's not as if sophocles had written some 2700 years ago about a political leader forbidding anyone to b u r r y a r e b e l and t e r r o r i s t ...
(long before s o c i a l i s m and modern t e r r o r i s m had been invented)
seems some words were forbidden.
Here the full text of Antigone :
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Aabo%3Atlg%2C0011%2C002&query=1