Hmmmm does this violate the Geneva Convention? Will anyone here try and twist it around and claim 'the US does the same thing chris so don't be a hypocrite'? This is disgusting and it infuriates me.



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Indeed, but having soldiers posing with the dead enemy for cameras isn't as bad?Darth Wong wrote:Ando, the outrage is over the desecration of the body, not the publication of pictures (which I'm not even sure took place in this incident). Obviously motivated by a combination of mob mentality and hatred.
I seem to recall disciplinary action being taken against troops who did that in Afghanistan.weemadando wrote:Indeed, but having soldiers posing with the dead enemy for cameras isn't as bad?Darth Wong wrote:Ando, the outrage is over the desecration of the body, not the publication of pictures (which I'm not even sure took place in this incident). Obviously motivated by a combination of mob mentality and hatred.
I'm not saying that what the Iraqi's did was good, I'm just saying that its not all one way.
And a people who FINALLY get a chance to kill someone who killed some of their countrymen. Lord knows they couldn't do it in their OWN country. These people hardly had a nation left to invade, what with Sadaam in power. Rather, they had a collection of militant soldiers and oppressive people within their own society. Western culture was not the cause of their repression. It was their own government. Get your facts straight.weemadando wrote:Who does this?
A group of people very pissed off at having their nation invaded.
A group of people with a long and proud ethnic background of repression by Western powers.
You're missing the point. First off, at least in America, there are no GRAPHIC depictions of dead bodies. They are mounds of nothing more than soldier's uniforms along the side of the road. Yes, those heaps are dead Iraqi soldiers, but I defy you to show me a media outlet that has covered this war, whatever their bias, and has not shown a picture of a dead body. Besides that, Al Jazeera showed images of dead American soldiers that were MORE THAN JUST A LITTLE GRAPHIC. These images weren't just lumps on the ground. Oh no. These were 2.5x zoom shots of bullet holes in a soldier's forehead. Yes, these pictures exist of Iraqis, too, but they are by no means made readily available for mass public consumption. You have to LOOK for them.So they display the body publically, yes its fucking disgraceful. But we the enlightened west transmit images of soldiers standing over the bodies of our enemies like a trophy hunter, live to a global audience.
What make you so sure the American soldiers are posing with dead Iraqis maybe they`re thinking "why the fuck they want to die for this fucktard Saddam"weemadando wrote:Indeed, but having soldiers posing with the dead enemy for cameras isn't as bad?Darth Wong wrote:Ando, the outrage is over the desecration of the body, not the publication of pictures (which I'm not even sure took place in this incident). Obviously motivated by a combination of mob mentality and hatred.
I'm not saying that what the Iraqi's did was good, I'm just saying that its not all one way.
But with only two big paragraphs, she must be sick or something.Darth Wong wrote:As expected, Marina basically says "because they're really pissed off" in her own special way
You know what's funny? If this had taken place in America in a time of peace, and the soldier was murdered and hung up for public consumption after being dragged around the streets, the only crime we could convict that man of is murder, because dead bodies have no rights. Hell, after the victim is dead, the body can be raped, mutilated, set aflame, chopped into little itty bitty pieces and served as an hors d'oeuvre, and the only thing we could get that bastard for is murder.Stormbringer wrote:And as usual Ando makes excuses for any anti-US action no matter how barbaric.![]()
It's abosultely revolting that they would mutilate a body and it certainly violates the rules of civilized warfare. I'm not suprised given the barbaric conduct of the Iraqis thus far. Of course one can always hope they'd behave civilly.