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Politics : Stop the War! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Vitas who wrote (11753)	4/10/2003 7:28:28 AM
From: AK2004	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21614

Vitas re: Human Rights Watch reported that those detained earlier in the war had spoken of living on grass and being unable to wash for up to 40 days. I have seen similar statements before and I always wondered how prisoners of war managed, as per Human Rights Watch, not to eat, drink or wash for over a months considering that they were only captured for few days at most. The article refers to "earlier in the war" reports of not washing for 40 days when the complete war has not lasted that long yet. The Human Rights Watch must be using some very advanced statistical concepts to get to those numbers. I can just imagine Human Rights Watch statistician saying to a prisoner - 'what? The just fed you 10 minutes ago and you had a shower 5 minutes ago while been captured for at least 20 minutes. You have not been fed for 50% of your stay in american camp and you have not washed for 75%. If we assume that the war would last 8 weeks that would imply that some of the prisoners would not have food for 4 weeks or wash for 6 weeks'. re: The man who shot him was Mahmoud Taher, there is no reason for that Taher fellow to surrender alive.....