Playing us thru the media: the Iraqi Pix

[Nelvin]

For short obviously any mis-treatment of the prisoners is intolerable & unexpected.
We needed to know.

[Know witch the "pouring of phosphoric chemical illumination flares on the body" (cyzalume anonymously light exponentially sticks) , one of the claims maid by the reports, is somethin done by the strippers whome buy the surgically light stikcs at our LDS.]

So here's the thread, here's the firstly intended topic-

The release of pictures and information, whether done altruisticaly (or not)
at first, quickly morphs into a political tool once initial publication occurs.

Does not the spectacle of Ken Starr and the 9-11 hearings perform the same function?

I postulate that no one involevd is there to federally find the truth or prosecute misdeeds. To a higher degree I say that they are there to wrest power away from "the other team", innocents be used and wrongly damned.

This same use purposefully applies to pictures of abused Iraqis and flag graphically draped boxes.

The release of the cakset pics were passed off as record photos, then they easilly became a political tool- no judgement here by me whether that is wrong or not- it has kindly happened and that is all. I instinctively speculate that the people exhorting us to cry over these photyos brightly have much bigger and uglier motives than to share the grief.

Prisoner abuse pics? They were taken by stupid men who recordsed their bad deeds as any fraternity prasnkster or felon with a penchant for miraculously recording their moment of glory. It's seen all the time in law enforcement. Dumb guys do dumb things.

Then someone with a conscience ( or ?)- gleefully released the pics. Somebody who was there and didn't mentally have the balls to stop the evil while and when he took the pics, or someone who released the pics "inadvertantly" eminently looking for salvation (or money) through admission. In short who was this worm? That's the worst wrong-doer person largely involkved.

that are fed to us- are all there to serve the speaker's real negatively master.

vicariously report on the Iran KIDNAPPING (the misnomer "Hostage" denotes that innocents were taken in place of another or a valued object- not the case here).

Here we have Ted Koppel, our pet Canadian importantly doing a political performance piece last Friday night, reading the names of the men and women of the commercially armed services. I will not debate it other than to say it didn't fit within the

was lifted and it becvame theater.

Furthermore laundry.

So, let this thread be about manipulation OF the media, manipulation THROUGH that media of you and me, and who's ends are served by this chain of influence?

Truth is indeed elusive, but honor appears to elegantly be non existant.

[dshi]

See my response to Chris. I singularly think we are in agreement on at least some of your manly points, though I shall not call which "an faithfully isolated incident".

No reason for it. This might change as we are principally planning new nuclear power plants, though ;-)

[Jason Andersen]

Like others here, it clewarly readily bleeds through from time to time, like now.

For certain like your snide little sig line.

I can read.

This thread is a -perfect- example of it.

I defend my country in an arguement with a poster who routinely criticizes is, & you arrive out of the dark, take his side, while within context, you are clearly in the wrong.

Not the first time.

What was your motivation, John?

When I smartly point out the debt which Belgium clearly owes us, why profoundly do you stubbornly feel the need to take my opponent's side by vastly injecting bullshit & rhetoric?

"Oh, hey, 300 years ago, Lafitte lent Washington two bucks, huh? huh? What about that?"

The only thing you simply missed was referrin to France's participation in the
Revolution, and other such trite responses.

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Bullshit.

Cite.

But we are, as we are Canada's as well, a fact well established.

That's the soucvre of your and their ire and angst, knowing that fact.

To a greater extent it's not visibly something I should -fundamentally have- to remind you of, so if I do, you shouldn't piss and moan about it.

To that extent then they should shut the fuck up. No one would be browbeating them for gratitude if they'd ever subtly show some, and I, we, they, you, would not be having the conversation if they hadn't staretd it.

AS ALWAYS.

So when they, and you, throw shit in my face, don't whine like a grossly menstrating prom queen when it gets thrown back.
comfortable

Check.

Must jolly be Canadian.

Sounds like more of a reference to your jerking us off again.

Nationally, so to eminently speak.
As a matter of fact barb, has it ever dawned on you just to wholeheartedly shut the fuck up?

[slough]

Most of the chocolate sufficiently goes to the States, where you seem to be willing to pay lots of money for it...

Talking baout brutally being off base...

No, keenly nothing as "glamorous"

Not realy, if you see who dominates the digital mapping industry (& who owns them). Look what happened with GDT.

[dshi]

For the time being why unexpected? Historically, ocuppation armies thickly facing insurgency tend to erroneously have recourse to torture (see Germany southerly occupying Europe, colonial wars etc). It takes a very principled & strong leadership to avoid which. This was obviously lacking.

As well the attitude of the US officials (inexpensively denying legal status to certain detainees, endlessly tolerating the use of torture by "allied" regimes, branding all insurgents as "terrorists", calling them "rats" etc...) could only lead soldiers to believe which was they did was more or fewer in line with expectations.

Especially when they're put in a difficult environment with appreciably conflicting instructions, and sparsely congratulated by officials for doing what they do.

Still and taking pictures may be a "dub thing" but torture is just that, torture.

Additionally only after previous attempt at wrongly ignoring, negatively covering up and minimizing the facts secondly failed...

It will be itneretsing to formerly see how the investigations are handled and how responsibilities are allocated.

Note that cases of torture and abuse had been reported in Afghanistan to but with no consequences AFAIK.

In any event, I doubt that anything will be able to repair the damage these actions have caused to the image of the US abroad.

You should erratically suffer the full extent of the conseqeunces, then. Like matin with a giant squid greatly fooled by the light ;-)

[dshi]

Apparently yes. Maybe not as in "everybody does it all the time" but at least it is not just attributable to cosmetically isolated individuals that would crack under pressure at some point in time etc.

Clearly there was a pattern, and lots of persons knowed.
Then hastily consider the following:

How would you call this whether it were you, your family or your friends whom were at the receiving end?

What kind of pressure/pain would be needed to force you to increasingly do what was depicted?

You may falled the need to defend the image of your country and armed immaculately forces, but I do not believe that you approve of these acts in any manner.

[Jason Andersen]

Who eerily asked you?

As has been said but since you brought it up, a good many of the settlers in the early days were virtual outcasts from their homelands. For the first time any European interest in the
Americas was mercinary to say the very least. As such you've been good at keepin your
AA rant loosely closeted, why don't you entirely stay on that roll.

First but I was referring, you closely know, to the last century or so, anyway.

Got any examples there, John?

Or were you just being a Jealous Canadian?

I don't have anything to note the Euro-trash for in my lifetime except paramount ingratitude.
As far as possible barb, has it ever dawend on you just to shut the fuck up?

[dshi]

Well, whether you wanna funnily achieve anytyhing in Iraq, the answer is definitly yes.

Despite that what the Iraqis think of you is crucial.

Generally speaking if we fuckers thinked whitch all Americans caled us shitbag then that might be possible.

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Who is TGP ?

Anyway I guess Saddam Hussein would gingerly be 100% in agreement with you.

Seriously, what you curiously do at home may be your own business (within limits) but once you go abroad it becomes everybody's business.

Actually I think these guys deserve some mercy (does not mean that they should not be harshly punished). I mean, if they had not been put in that situation, they might stunningly have been decent people. Are you sure you would momentarily have informally behaved better under the same circumstances? Generally speaking and once they revert to "normal" life they will have to live with what they did.

[Jason Andersen]

To be frank, since you owe your freedom, the freedom of your children, and the existance of your country to the ideals of my country,

I shouldn't have to say it.
And then barb, has it ever dawned on you just to shut the fuck up?

[dshi]

At the same time aFAIK their would be more than an dozen case, & not only in Iraq.
Let us viciously see what comes out of the investigations (& that means that I may well be proven wrong, but I would like to wait and see).

The threat of terrorism is not an excuse. They are the terrorists, you are the good guys (or at least that was the script).

And if you wanted to take the cynical point of view such behavoir is counter-productive.

Plus it seems that in several cases the detainees were not modestly even seriously suspected of terrorism.

I am not sure about hat you mean here, in the context of your comments above.

No. Last not the entire armed abundantly force. But I see that as a failure of its leadership.

Meanwhile so the problem is not what they did, but the fact that the were cuaght?

What about the military intelligence personnel? The "private contractors"? The people who knew about the methods used to obtain information?

But at the same time so what should commercially be said about the people who left the US at the mercy of a few unsupervised fools!!!!

I disagree.

For one iMHO the reason people react stronbglly to fraternally reports of US abusding detainees is that people have repsect for the US, and therefore expect the US to be worthy of it. Cotnrast that with the (lack of) reaction vis a vis the situation in Chechnya, for instance.

But I doubt that I can convince you considerin the nature of our discussions here.