Of Human Disgust...

This is the sort of thing they put into a movie to establish how awful the villan is. Its the kinda thing they put in movies so that when the bad guy gets killed, you feel ok with it...pleased even.

The problem is, the people doing this are our soldiers, and the ones that will likely die will not be these terrible people. they will be the soldier that happens to be caught by an angry Iraqi. our good soldiers will be the ones recieving the wrath that results from this sort of behaviour.
it makes me sad that people would even do such a thing.
it makes me worried about the others that may pay this with their lives.
it makes me angry that our president refuses to issue an apology to these people.

this sort of thing should hang around the neck of these soldiers for the rest of their lives.

from the AP:

U.S. soldiers who detained an elderly Iraqi woman last year placed a harness on her, made her crawl on all fours and rode her like a donkey, Prime Minister Tony Blair's personal human rights envoy to Iraq said Wednesday. The envoy, legislator Ann Clwyd, said she had investigated the claims of the woman in her 70s and believed they were true."

"She was held for about six weeks without charge," the envoy told Wednesday's Evening Standard newspaper. "During that time she was insulted and told she was a donkey. A harness was put on her, and an American rode on her back."

Clwyd said the woman has recovered physically but remains traumatized.

"I am satisfied the case has now been resolved satisfactorily," the envoy told British Broadcasting Corp. radio Wednesday. "She got a visit last week from the authorities, and she is about to have her papers and jewelry returned to her."

That's not a resolution. that's letting her live like a normal human being. As you read about all these things that have been happening remember that this is May and ALL of these incidents were happening in 2003. these aren't recent. its just getting to the point where someone in charge is finally taking notice.

Just take a moment and think about how you would feel if this were being done to our soldiers...or worse. These criminals may have just opened that door.