Thursday, July 15, 2004

Iraqi women beg to be killed…

…as American soldiers sodomise their children. No, it’s not true. Well, it hasn’t been proved to be true yet, and may never be.

The women were passing messages out saying ‘Please come and kill me, because of what’s happened’ and basically what happened is that those women who were arrested with young boys, children in cases that have been recorded. The boys were sodomized with the cameras rolling. And the worst above all of that is the soundtrack of the boys shrieking that your government has. They are in total terror. It's going to come out.

Like many on the MetaFilter thread, I hope it’s not true. Those of you who have seen Michael Moore’s most recent film will be familiar with military insensitivity in Iraq, and this story, if true, will raise hell. Utter hell. Of course, if it’s true, hell has already been raised, and this reply within the post raises the very good point that Moore also makes: many US soliders are very young and have very little education, and letting young uneducated people carry and shoot weapons on government orders is a bad idea.

But we do it in the UK, too. Because obviously 26–year–olds, say, are too old to be starting off in the Forces.

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