Posted on 10/24/2004 2:08:34 AM PDT by Former Military Chick
The bodies of 49 Iraqi army soldiers have been found near the town of Baquba, north-east of Baghdad, according to police. The bodies were laid out in four rows with about 12 bodies in each row, Gen Walid Al-Assawi, commander of the Diyala provincial police, has said.
"After inspection, we found out that they were shot after being ordered to lie down on the earth," he said.
Thirty-seven bodies were found on Saturday, and another 12 on Sunday.
Whatever. I don't even go to church regularly. I just love people like you who sit on this board and make a mountain out of a gopher hole.
Obviously I touched a nerve in you, although that wasn't even close to my intention. And what's with the "horribly biased" quotation? I never said anything about you or anyone being "horribly biased" in this thread. Please refrain from misquoting me in future posts.
You've got mail.
I don't know. Saudi changed theirs regarding foreigners arming for effective self defense. It's obvious folks should do that in Iraq, because of the batths and jihadis. Both of those groups use extortion and other forms of coercion to impede cooperation with the interim gov. The extortion is composed mostly of death threats to self and family. It's ridiculous not to arm for effective defense.
Yep. The Iraqi Constitution is in desperate need of a Second Amendment.
Rules of Engagement for Iraqi soldiers: Once engaged, not that you have choosen it to be so, it is now a fight to the death. Do not go passively. Fight to the death. Do not lay down.
I wasn't quoting you with the "horribly biased" comment. My quotes from your post were italicized. However, I should have been more clear by only using quotation marks around the word "horribly", because you had said:
Interesting, if horribly flawed, chain of logic you have there.
I was re-using your use of the word "horribly" to accent the word "biased" in the same way that you had used "horribly" to accent the word "flawed".
Doesn't look like it to me. Looks like whoever shot them checked the bodies for valuables, ID cards, etc, which would have meant turning them over. Notice their shoes have all been removed.
You're right. Plus, on further scrutiny, most of them have blood on the fronts of their shirts... blood wouldn't flow laterally or "up" if they were shot facing up. So they must have been shot facing down, and the blood flowed down onto the ground and soaked the front of their shirts.
This is such a sad sad tragedy. These poor guys... hearing their cohorts being shot one by one and knowing they were next. Animals did this, plain and simple.
Exactly so- at least that's what I've read; and what has made it so important that our detainees are given the status POW
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