Monday, October 19, 2009

Stupid War ...Stupid People ...Stupid Interrogations

Just recently I was watching a documentary that had to do with how the American soldiers based in Iraq were treating prisoners of war and what practices they used to interrogate them in order to discover the whereabouts of Saddam Husein.

It seems that where Saddam Husein was hiding was the justification to do pretty well anything they pleased with their prisoners. If you call interrogation stripping a man down to his birthday suit and having him pose in very awkward positions together with other men and then having a female soldier smiling in the picture beside them giving this practice her thumbs up, you've definitely got a problem, buddy! This Soldier later excuses herself in the documentary saying that it was just a habit that she had every time some she posed for a picture. Is this a new standard procedure for interrogating?

They are stupid if they think that everybody is going to agree that this practice is an efficient way of obtaining information from anybody! And thinking that people are going to be fooled by their flimsy explanations for doing wrong, is just a way of insulting our intelligence.

The last time I checked, interrogation meant:

  • The interviewing of subjects as commonly employed by officers of the police and military. This practice is used for getting information from a suspect, witness or victim after a crime has been committed.

...so where does torture and humiliation come into all of this?

Somebody needs to explain to some of the people in the US military that they do not have the right to humilliate people just because they are not Americans and then just come up with some very stupid, flimsy explanations as to why they did it. The logic behind this behavior definitely escapes my comprehension and makes me believe that these soldiers are not any better than the terrorists themselves. So they can stop justifying something that is wrong in the name of democracy, the "free" world, or whatever they may believe in.

As usual, the "little guys" are not at fault in all of this as much as the big bosses who should know better than to force their subordinates to do whatever they please and to justify it with trying to find out where the president of Iraq was.

Now I have a question for these people:
They line up a whole bunch of guys against a wall, naked as J-birds, and put a hood over their heads, then they make them play with their "privates". Could someone please explain to me how this method will get them the information that they need?

This is only one woman's modest opinion on this matter and of course you are welcome to your own opinion. I just think that the BIG guys on both sides are not playing with a full deck.

That's all I have to say on this matter. Goodbye for now!

1 comment:

  1. LOL omg mom for real this totally makes sense. I of course as you know have issues with abusing people and I don't think this is right that they pull this crap and expect their excuses to be justified by whatever reason they have. Maybe we should do the same shit to them that they do to others, just sayin.

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Thank you for your input. I'm sure many "sensible" people will benefit from it.