[Henrietta]

The picture at the top of this thread makes me want to vomit.

For every person that says that we don't needs guns to protect ourselves from our own government, this picture proves otherwise. We are no different from the Iraquis with respect to what happens to people when one group gets to play "prison guard" and one group gets to play "prisoner." The guards become oppressors, and the prisoners become the oppressed.

As a side note, where was the outrage in the Arab community when Saddaam was doing worse than this to his OWN people??

[Dead Corpse]

"We are no different..."

Bravo Sierra. If we were no different, we wouldn't be humiliating them, we'd be lopping bits of them off with a dull machette. Those wires in the one photo would actually be hooked to a car battery instead of nothing. We'd be feeding people alive into plastic shredders and wood chippers.

Is what happened right? No. Neither was it anywhere NEAR the same kind or level of barbarism the Iraq's themselves have perpetrated. Another differnce? The perps here will be found, tried, and punished.

No different? That is what the liberals want you to believe.

[WOSG]

"The guards become oppressors, and the prisoners become the oppressed."

Let's be clear about one thing: One of the prisoners identified had killed coalition forces, then was taken prisoner, then incited a prison riot, and then was punished for it. Nobody was, or should have been, "playing" anything.

The unprofessionalism of how this was handled needs to be met with reprimands and condemnation, but to broad brush call our enemies killing our soldiers the 'oppressed' is absurd.

Most of these men are terrorists who killed in cowardly ways and deserve death, and they wont get it because we are too kind to them and their families.

The same cannot be said for how they treated the Italian civilian they kidnapped. we may be signatories to the Geneva convention, but our enemy is signed up with the evil tactics of terrorism.

[Antoninus]

As a side note, where was the outrage in the Arab community when Saddaam was doing worse than this to his OWN people??

Difference--there were no pictures. And even if there were, the media wouldn't have run them.