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White House screw over their own POW's.....
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In 2003 former American POW's were awarded around $1 billion in compensation for being tortured by Iraq in Abu Ghraib (ironic yes) during the Gulf War.........only to have their government turn around and say, sorry you can't have it now we need the money to help develop iraq..........source.
what's more ironic is that rumsfeld has come out and said that iraqi prisoners who were mistreated at abu ghraib deserve compensation........incredulous given the circumstances.
now imagine you go off to fight a bloody war for your country like a good patriot and you take a beating in the process, only to come back and find the very country you fought for is stabbing you in the back.........i'd be pissed.
what's more ironic is that rumsfeld has come out and said that iraqi prisoners who were mistreated at abu ghraib deserve compensation........incredulous given the circumstances.
now imagine you go off to fight a bloody war for your country like a good patriot and you take a beating in the process, only to come back and find the very country you fought for is stabbing you in the back.........i'd be pissed.
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I'm not saying that they shouldn't be recompensed, but it does seem that US judges think of a number and then multiply it by 100.