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Originally posted by chodadog
I think it's safe to assume that the guy was right in saying that they were killed for something fairly minor given Saddam's track record of the way he treated Shiites. Unless you have any other information to show that this fair assumpition is incorrect, shut the fuck up.
I'd put money down that they were doing nothing worse than protesting.
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Remember that you americanclaim that Iraq is " camel jockeys" and " sand n-i-g-g-e-e-r-s" ... so archaic in the " modern civilisation" concept.
This is from the ,modern civilisation, the one of the US :
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The 2002 memo the Justice Department spoke of, signed by former Assistant Attorney General Jay Bybee, included lengthy sections that appeared to justify the use of torture in the war on terrorism and contended that U.S. personnel could be immune from prosecution for torture. The memo also argued that the president's powers as commander in chief allow him to override U.S. anti-torture laws and international treaties banning the practice.
??Congress may no more regulate the president's ability to detain and interrogate enemy combatants than it may regulate his ability to direct troop movements on the battlefield," the Bybee memo said.
Critics on Capitol Hill and elsewhere have said that memo provided the legal underpinnings for subsequent abuses of prisoners in Afghanistan and Iraq.
http://www.salon.com/news/wire/2004/06/22/memo/
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To each of the dictators, the end justifies the means....