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Originally posted by eroswebmaster
You never see on cnn close up footage of Iraqi soldiers faces, you never hear audio of them giving out their name, rank, and serial #, you never hear them answering questions while they are being interrogated.
Understand the difference now?
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i would say the soldiers shown on tv are the lucky ones, they're much more likely to get out when it's all over, now we know they're alive. (let's hope so anyway)
during the first gulf war all the media were saying that the pilots captured and shown on TV were badly bruised and cut up, and had clearly been tortured. And after the war was over it turned out most pilots got their injuries from ejecting from their planes. (I'm not saying they were well treated though)
i think interviewing soldiers on tv is nothing to be honest, it's bizarre that it's ok for both sides to shoot as many as possible with guns, but shoot someone with a camera and there's an outcry. you can guarantee there's a lot worse than this going on on both sides at the moment.
i've seen the faces of loads of iraqi prisoners and don't hear them giving name. rank and number because i don't speak arabic and i'm guessing nor do their captors. i heard lots of taliban being interogated in afghanistan by the CIA and the media including prisoners on stretchers (that american taliban being an example) and when it became clear that human rights may get in the way you changed the "laws of war" and called them enemy combatants whatever that means.
btw i'm not condoning iraqi or taliban treatment, their treatment is fine by me, i'm british and support our troops 110% whilst they're in action, just exposing double standards. it's distressing to see dead and captured soldiers but no worse than we do.