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To: LindyBill who wrote (171897)	7/1/2006 11:27:07 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793721

It has to do with the way the MSM handles it through their Mai Lai lenses. I understand that point. But just because the MSM has a Mi Lai lens doesn't mean that they are publishing this particular story in some knee jerk way solely out of bias. I don't know very much about this incident yet but what struck me as different is the escalation. It's one thing when troops go bonkers and start shooting Arabs indiscriminately under stress because they are indistinguishable from the enemy. It's horrid, but it's something I can understand happening under stress. If you kill in response to being killed, you're responding in kind. That is understandable even if not acceptable. Rape is not in kind. Rape is a special kind of sicko in that scenario. (Per the Law and Order:Special Victims Unit opening line, "sex crimes are considered especially heinous...") I call that escalation and escalation is news. None of this should be interpreted as my opining that either Haditha or this rape-killing actually happened per the accusations.

To: LindyBill who wrote (171897)	7/3/2006 3:11:57 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 793721

Am I the first to post that federal prosecutors have charged one soldier in the rape and murder of fifteen-year-old Abeer Qasim Hamza? As well as shooting to death her mother, father, five year old sister, and setting them on fire? washingtonpost.com washingtonpost.com Not as bad as My Lai, but bad enough to galvanize public opinion and play into the paranoia projected by the Islamists. And then, according to another member of the platoon, he knew about it but said nothing until two members of their platoon were kidnapped, tortured, and one was beheaded. Another non-participant has confessed that he knew about the planning of the crime in advance, and saw the perpetrators dispose of bloody clothing, but said nothing. And so it goes. Why, Lindy? Why did the non-participants say nothing even though they knew about the plan in advance, and knew afterwards that it was carried out? Are they just "bad apples"? Or does it (as I think) indicate dehumanization of the enemy? Maybe we'll get lucky and the Iraqis will throw us out and take care of their own problems.