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To: Ilaine who wrote (43221)	5/10/2004 1:27:45 PM
From: Sully-	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 793719

Media stampede? ...alleged abuses include the stripping and beating of a 12-year-old girl and an imam being forced to wear women's underwear and locked up with female prisoners........ How long was this in the spotlight? Where was the media stampede here? <font size=4> ....In a scene reminiscent of Somalia, frenzied crowds dragged the burned, mutilated bodies of four American civilian workers through the streets of a town west of Baghdad and strung two of them up from a bridge after rebels ambushed their SUVs..... <font size=3> post-gazette.com As much as I understand what you are upset about, I am appalled that atrocities like this are swept under the rug because of any number of bullshit excuses. The liberal media has any number of excuses to justify their lack of coverage & justification for these types of atrocities. The same goes for how our prisoners were treated by Saddam & how he treated his own people. Yes, what those prison guards did was horrific. Yes, there is absolutely no excuse for what happened in Abu Ghraib. Yes everyone involved & responsible for these crimes should be severely punished. But that process was well under way before we even learned about it & the media is not properly presenting that side of this tragedy. Meanwhile the media is blowing this completely out of all proportion & many in the media are intentionally trying to politicize it with slanted, biased & misleading reporting. And they are responsible for not reporting with similar disdain & outrage the other atrocities that have occurred. I have a serious problem with that aspect of this terrible terrible story. No one is getting a fair & balanced view of the world & the liberal media & liberal politicians are doing this for political gain & anti-war purposes. And I find that unconscionable.

To: Ilaine who wrote (43221)	5/10/2004 1:41:58 PM
From: 2MAR$	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793719

Other alleged abuses include forcing prisoners to simulate homosexual acts - a taboo in the Arab world. yes, they drive a sharpened wooden stake up thru homosexual's anus and up thru their bodies and impale them while still alive...and the entire village turns out to watch including little children . I could show you a film of real live footage of this happening if you like ? They told me to take off my clothes. I stripped down to my underpants but they shouted I had to take those off, too," the imam is quoted as saying. "I stood there, naked. I was ashamed, while they were making fun of my embarrassment. I'm really feeling his pain ...he'll never get over it. <G> soldiers should be disciplined , given more training and support... but this was not the Ho Chi Min Hilton.