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Lynndie England gets 3 years
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4287266.stm
Doesn't seem very long does it?
Though in fairness she should not be made too much of an scapegoat to save the arses of the real guilty parties: her bosses in Iraq, at the Pentagon and of course her Commander-in-Chimp and his government of criminals and torturers.
Doesn't seem very long does it?
Though in fairness she should not be made too much of an scapegoat to save the arses of the real guilty parties: her bosses in Iraq, at the Pentagon and of course her Commander-in-Chimp and his government of criminals and torturers.
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Am I right in my thinking that they were only reservists? Or did I get a false impression somewhere.
I read somewhere that 40% of the troops in Iraq are reservists (or poss. National Guard), but don't quote me on that...
Of course I'm just wondering when we'll get the bleats of prison doesn't work or cries to look at their deprived backgrounds - or is that only for civilians?
To be fair I doubt that you'd have even been imprisoned if you were a civilian (not that you'd be in a similar position). England et al were lawfully holding them - so it wasn't kidnap. The sexual and physical assault were more humiliation than physical damage or pain and I'd be very suprised for a first offence if people would be jailed for it in the civilian world.
However soldiers who commit war crimes should be treated more harshly than civilian counterparts
I don’t know her personal circumstances other than that she used to be a chicken factory worker. The US spends billions targeting those on low incomes to join the armed forces; it wouldn't surprise me if for this soldier it was 'economic conscription' that took her to Iraq. The Poverty Draft.
To go from working in a chicken factory to working in an Iraqi prison is a pretty big contrast. Maybe she just couldn't cope with everything psychologically. I don't know really but I think that the US army is as much to blame as the individuals involved, the US army should have been keeping a much closer eye and helping people who are clearly young and inexperienced and perhaps can't cope.
..after all the victims were asking for it, walking around that with skin tone FFS, just what did they expect.
Do you want to get banned racist?
I think my views are well known on this board, as are yours. Let the others decide which of us is racist, shall we?
If you are three or so.
I am guessing at this rate he is about 12 and a bit of an annoying one.
Made my day
Now I know the truth..............!
Well, he did admit to voting New Labour.
Perhaps if I send you abusive e-mails the Judge might also thinks it's a laff. and as far as I'm aware MoK has never said who he votes for (I could have a guess but I might be wrong).
If you don't want to be thought of as a racist - you need to up your debating skills a bit. I'm right wing and I think you're a racist.
MoK started the abuse, look in the junk food banned thread. For no other reason other then the fact he did not like what I had to say, he calls me a fuckwit and that was before I sent that email.
Up your argument and proove him wrong. I don't always (often) agree with MoK, but I respect him. If you could put your point across like him you'd gain respect as well. You don't and come over as a racist.
Take this as friendly advice, because I'd much rather other right wingers put forward decent arguments, than didn't and tarred the rest of us who vote Tory as further to the right than Hitler.
Not the first one though, is it?
I don't need to "paint you" as anything, you do a very good job of outing yourself. As for being terrified, I think your ego gets the better of you. All I seek is to make sure that you are seen for what you are and that you comments can be read in that context.
I did?
Can you source that?
I'd lay a few hundred quid on you not being able to.