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Originally posted by Skunk:
I don't think that the United States treats POW's any better or worse than any other western nation - the treatment of uniformed combatents appears to have been comparable to that of the British - generally good.
Shouldn't the standard of treatment of foreign detainees be no worse than domestic detainees? Isn't that the only comparison worthy of making?
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Short memory.
You should read up on some of the abuses handed out by the British in the Port Arthur penal colony, India, South Africa, and of course Ireland. I would call starving masses of the Irish during the "potato blight" one of the most horrific abuses in human history. So are the clearances of the Scottish highlands by English aristocrats.
I find your protestations and holier than thou finger pointing at other nations laughable given what atrocities your own people have commited.
Yes the abuses in Iraq are disgusting and should not have occured, but lets leave out the ritualistic slagging off America seems to routinely recieve from you. As I have said repeatedly, due to your own peoples history you are in possibly the worst position to cry judgement. Were Britain still #1, I see no reason why the behaviour would be any different.