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shamrock_uk · 04-30-2004, 12:40 PM

It is against the Geneva Convention to subject prisoners to "degrading or humiliating treatment" however. Some of the pictures now being shown (that were blanked out in the clip) have two marines doing a thumbs-up for the cameras beside a heap of what looks like 10 naked iraqi's made to lie on top of each other.

But seriously promethius, if we forget regional stability and public relations for the moment, you would consider that kind of behaviour acceptable in a marine?

We should perhaps remember the American outrage over the footage of the three US pow's shown (fully clothed i might add) on television. Imagine if the situation was reversed, and those were American prisoners and Iraqi guards...I can't help thinking that your stance might be a little different then.

What i'm really amazed at is the media censorship going on in the US though. Despite it being front page news across the entire world, in the US only one newspaper carried the story, and that was only a local one because most of the marines were from that area. On CNN.com you have to hunt really hard to find it, and I can't see it on abcnews.com at all.

[EDIT] Just for you Timber [img]smile.gif[/img]

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/rdon...18DE54510B.jpg

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/image...nergrab203.jpg

I can't find anymore individual pictures than that, they're all in video I'm afraid. [/EDIT]

[ 04-30-2004, 12:46 PM: Message edited by: shamrock_uk ]

04-30-2004, 12:40 PM	#5
shamrock_uk Dracolich Join Date: January 24, 2004 Location: UK Age: 42 Posts: 3,092	It is against the Geneva Convention to subject prisoners to "degrading or humiliating treatment" however. Some of the pictures now being shown (that were blanked out in the clip) have two marines doing a thumbs-up for the cameras beside a heap of what looks like 10 naked iraqi's made to lie on top of each other. But seriously promethius, if we forget regional stability and public relations for the moment, you would consider that kind of behaviour acceptable in a marine? We should perhaps remember the American outrage over the footage of the three US pow's shown (fully clothed i might add) on television. Imagine if the situation was reversed, and those were American prisoners and Iraqi guards...I can't help thinking that your stance might be a little different then. What i'm really amazed at is the media censorship going on in the US though. Despite it being front page news across the entire world, in the US only one newspaper carried the story, and that was only a local one because most of the marines were from that area. On CNN.com you have to hunt really hard to find it, and I can't see it on abcnews.com at all. [EDIT] Just for you Timber [img]smile.gif[/img] http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/rdon...18DE54510B.jpg http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/image...nergrab203.jpg I can't find anymore individual pictures than that, they're all in video I'm afraid. [/EDIT] [ 04-30-2004, 12:46 PM: Message edited by: shamrock_uk ]