By: adamgreenfield
Hogg...clenching the butt This just gets better and better. Isn't that rather an odd locution to use to refer to a cigar, anyway? One "clenches" sphincter muscles, sure, but cigars? I spy a capture...
View ArticleBy: RichLyon
"Hogg, the 2nd Brigade commander, noted this as he sat in a Humvee on Wednesday afternoon, clenching the butt of a Dominican, cigar in his teeth." What a difference a comma makes.
View ArticleBy: NortonDC
Bonzai, I think you're making an honest misinterpretation of the text of the article:Col. David Hogg, commander of the 2nd Brigade of the 4th Infantry Division, said tougher methods are being used to...
View ArticleBy: Civil_Disobedient
Do you honestly think that if the Washington Post believed that US soldiers had violated the Geneva convention, they would have buried that information in the middle of story? That the New York Times...
View ArticleBy: squirrel
They weren't kidnapped. They had information, they were detained for questioning. You're cherrypicking. What about the note? And fuck you for calling me a troll on this one. Easy there, cowboy.
View ArticleBy: Bonzai
His belief was relevant. He felt terror because he believed that the occupying army would not release his family. The occupying army exploited that terror to achieve a goal. They left a note with an...
View ArticleBy: soyjoy
Yes, there are the occasional problems, but, for the most part, our treatment goes above and beyond what is called for. Here we agree. Or did you mean "above and beyond" in the positive sense?
View ArticleBy: adamgreenfield
In a sea of good will and caring on the part of our soldiers The same ones I served with? "Man, we was dusting ragheads left and right. It was awesome." - E5, D/2/46 Inf, 1995, to affirmation. (Not, by...
View ArticleBy: muckster
a sea of good will and caring on the part of our soldiers to the Iraq citizens"According to Mr Ibrahim, the soldiers were by now firing indiscriminately."
View ArticleBy: Plunge
NortonDC: Sorry, I was commenting about those commenting about the link I posted. hmmm...does that make sense? Anyway, here is another soldier talking about the way prisoners are treated and the like....
View ArticleBy: NortonDC
Plunge, this has nothing to do with how they were treated in custody, but everything to do with why they were kidnapped.
View ArticleBy: Plunge
Having studied the Pacific theatre of WWII indepth, especially the treatment of prisoners and the like, I applaud the amount of care given to POWs by the US forces. Yes, there are the occasional...
View ArticleBy: NortonDC
Nope, because you can only arrest someone for the suspicion that they committed a crime. Keep thinking; it'll come to one of us. On preview, squirrel seems to be on to something...
View ArticleBy: squirrel
His belief was irrelevant. His wife and daughter were not harmed. They were detained for questioning, had the general not turned himself in they would have been released. His belief was relevant. He...
View ArticleBy: Cerebus
It was a clever bluff."Officer, I was bluffing when I pointed the gun at his head and said I was going to kill him." Somehow I don't think it's going to fly in front of a judge. You're still going to...
View ArticleBy: NortonDC
It was kidnapping in the service of a political/military goal. I think there's a word for that...
View ArticleBy: pjgulliver
Of course, one hopes that former Baathist leaders aren't reading th WaPo or Mefi and learning that the "if you want to see your wife and daughter again" line is all a hoax!
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