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Politics : Foreign Policy Discussion Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MSI who wrote (6383)	12/30/2003 12:51:43 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15987

Even Hitler kept meticulous records of the accused and the dead. Apparently, the official DOD line is that Hussein also kept records of victims of torture and execution. Uh.. I don't believe the Baathists were so meticulous with many of those mass executions. But I'm pretty positive they kept good records of those they tortured and later executed. That's only good intelligence gathering procedure since you don't throw anything away as it may lead to that potential spy.. Hitler was meticulous to an extent.. But there were far more mass executions than those carried out in concentration camps... So where are those records? We've had 50 plus years to review such records from Nazi Germany, written in a language that was more widely understood by translators and intelligence analysts. We've only just begun to conduct "doc-ex" on the hoard of Iraqi documentation they apparently claim to have uncovered. What's the purpose of Rumsfeld's doctrine of no accountability for the dead and wounded? Seems to me that's an Iraqi responsibility.. After all, I don't believe we kept any records of all the people we killed in WWII, Korea, or Vietnam.. War is not condusive to accurate record keeping about mass human death, unless you're engaged in assembly line style process of it as the Nazis were with the Jews.