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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)
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Of course, my point was addressing the difference between the Iraqi handling of our POW's and the way the coalition has handled Iraqi POW's...regardless the point of law is that they violated it.
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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.
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One reason for not interviewing soldiers on t.v. is out of respect and security for the family members of that soldier.
One POW's mom found out he was a POW while watching Phillipinian television. Would that be your choice of method in finding out your child was either dead, captured or missing.
Also when they force the soldiers to give out names, places where they were born etc, this now makes their family members vulnerable to attack, whether that is from terrorists, protesters, just flat out ignorant assholes or the media.
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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.
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The whole enemy combatant thing in Afghanistan is a completely different argument...as far as hearing any Iraq POW's giving out name, rank and number you don't need to know how to speak arabic because you didn't hear it, and you won't at least not from any media "embedded" with the military.
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just exposing double standards. it's distressing to see dead and captured soldiers but no worse than we do.
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You're not exposing anything. The only thing consisten about life is that it is inconsistent. Let's not pretend that anyone outside of America or that is protesting the war are the only ones with the ability to think.
Now if you don't think the Iraqis are treating POWs any worse than we are...then by all means jump right up there on the front lines and prove us wrong.