MrsSkywalker
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I figured someone would have started this one up already. Guess I get first say on the issue! The following is an excerpt from an article on MSNBC, but really, you should have all heard the story already.
The poor treatment of the POWs doesn't surprise me. Hell, he treats his own people worse! What totally angers me is the television stations who are continually airing this, in countries that are supposed to be our allies!! I haven't seen it on any of the news stations I have been watching (FOXNews, CNN, ABC, and NBC) and I hope to God that all of our stations have respect enough not to air it...at least not the parts which show our brave men lying in their own pools of blood.
This exploitation really pisses me off!!!
“TWELVE U.S. service members are reported missing,” said Lt. Gen. John Abizaid at a Sunday press conference at Central Command headquarters in Doha, Qatar. Abizaid characterized the fighting near Nasiriyah, northwest of Basra, as “the sharpest engagement of the war thus far.”
Al-Jazeera said the prisoners were captured around Nasiriyah, a major crossing point over the Euphrates River 233 miles southeast of Baghdad, near the ancient town of Ur, birthplace of the patriarch Abraham. U.S. Marine Corps sources told NBC News that overnight a convoy of Army vehicles with 31 soldiers took a wrong turn and drove through the southern Iraqi city. When they tried to turn back, they were confronted with an Iraqi ambush.
Iraqi television filmed the bodies and prisoners, saying they fell into Iraqi hands during a battle at the town of Souq al-Shuyukh, southeast of Nasiriyah, where U.S. forces have encountered stiff resistance.
The video showed two rooms each containing what appeared to be two separate groups of four bodies in uniforms, Reuters reported.
The bodies, mostly still fully clothed but some with shirts pulled up, were shown on the floor in pools of blood. In the first room, at least two had wounds to the head, and another had a groin wound. In another room, an Iraqi uncovered more bodies, some with blackened faces.
At least five prisoners, speaking American-accented English, were interviewed. Two were bandaged. Those interviewed included one woman. Two of the prisoners identified their unit only as the 507th Maintenance.
The poor treatment of the POWs doesn't surprise me. Hell, he treats his own people worse! What totally angers me is the television stations who are continually airing this, in countries that are supposed to be our allies!! I haven't seen it on any of the news stations I have been watching (FOXNews, CNN, ABC, and NBC) and I hope to God that all of our stations have respect enough not to air it...at least not the parts which show our brave men lying in their own pools of blood.
This exploitation really pisses me off!!!