- I thought that working in an institution, with all it's
abuses, and then on the streets with the homeless, that I would be less
shockable than the ordinary citizen.
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- Not true. I feel ashamed to be an American today. I feel
sick and shocked beyond belief, at the horrific, savage, diabolical barbarism,
that men/women in war are capable of. The pictures of The Abu Ghraib Prison
and others are beyond excuse--appalling. Just horrifying! See:
- http://www.albasrah.net/images/iraqi-pow/iraqi-pow
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- The few pictures shown on American news, are nothing
compared to this depraved bestial sadism! I am sick just physically sick.
This isn't about liberation, democracy, freedom, or any other happy hogwash.
This is about perversion-corruption-lies-lust-conquest-and madness. This
is greed and power run amuck. Open the door and every other demon enters
the fray. As we can see.
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- My Aunt and Uncle were Naval doctors in WWII. My other
Uncles served in the Army and Air Force. My brother-in-laws served in Vietnam.
My husband was in the Air Force. The men and women in these photographs,
wearing our nation's uniform are no better, than the most DANGEROUS of
sexual predators in our nation's prisons. They have shamed the honor of
our nation's uniform and their fellow soldiers. There are no words, no
excuses. Nothing can undo what these crazed individuals have perpetuated
on people held captive in their own country. Innocent? Guilty? Seems that
these mentally-deficient asses have played Judge-Jury-and Executioner.
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- Many of these people were living quietly in removed villages
these past months. Many were taken captive and locked up, for no other
reason, than that they were Iraqis and therefore suspect? The women being
raped and put through all sorts of perversions appear terrified and traumatized
for all time. As well they should be. HOW DARE THIS HAPPEN! A million women
marched in Washington last week. They demanded that government be kept
out of the decisions they make over their bodies. I wonder what they will
think, looking at what "rights" these poor young women are being
denied! This in a country and a culture, that prides itself on its modesty!
This pornographic-bestial abuse is the supposed "Democracy" that
Iraq is being asked to welcome? I think not...not now, and not ever. By
such sick acts; these men and women have wiped out forever, any semblance
of supposed "liberation". President Bush has spoken numerous
times of the brutality, the rape rooms, and torture of Saddam! Well these
pictures have put an end to our claims of finally freeing them of evil!
Saddam is locked up (supposedly). He is probably being treated with careful
consideration. Meantime our troops have picked up where he left off! Can
anyone believe this?
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- Can anyone imagine, that some of the asinine excuses
being put forth for this depravity are: "Saddam did much worse! These
are only a few bad apples etc." I would say more than a few. If these
are the pictures we're seeing, what aren't we seeing? What hasn't been
photographed? My dear God, beating people to death, raping, humiliating,
and degrading them. And people wonder at the less than enthusiastic welcome
of the populous? These pictures are now all over the world. What people
must think of us! Every solider or contractor, taken as a prisoner of war
in the future, will now be put at grave risk. Let's all think about this
before they decide to send millions of our kids off to war in some draft.
Save these pictures. And what of these prisoners? What International or
U.S. groups are seeking to their treatment and release? Who?
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- This is not war anymore. This is some macabre circus.
A circus of the insane, the mad, the deranged, sexual predators, the mindless
and soulless corporations. I keep thinking of these people(prisoners-the
young women). Imagine the fear, the trauma, the humiliation. I am so sick
and ashamed. What can we possibly tell the Iraqi citizens, that would explain
this behavior? How can we let them know, that we are as sick at heart as
they are? How to speak in a world has gone mad? Here at home people are
bickering about the "Pledge of Allegiance" and the words "Under
God". I don't think after viewing these pictures that we need worry
about being "Under God" any longer.
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- Comment
- From Mary Sparrowdancer
- sparrowdancer1@earthlink.net
- 5-2-4
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- "Under God" is something that I have been drawn
to again, again, and again.
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- After having personally translated portions of the Old
and New Testaments from Hebrew and Greek during the last fifteen years,
all I can say is that whenever we say "Under God," we need to
be asking this: under WHOSE god?
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- The various Hebrew scriptures speak of "gods"
- with plural references to those gods. And, those gods have given many
different messages. Some messages have been warlike and harsh, others
appear to have come from gods of compassion and wisdom.
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- In other words, the messages appear to be coming from
two completely different sides and sources - from two opposing forces.
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- The messages from all of those various "gods,"
however, have been erroneously translated into English as coming from one,
single, solitary "God."
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- No wonder everyone is confused.
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- We need to determine which gods our national leaders
are genuflecting to before we blindly follow them.
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- I, personally, do not wish to follow or pay tribute to
a god of war, bloodshed, inhumanity or destruction. I would prefer to
follow a god who might lead us with wisdom and compassion into a state
of peace and brotherhood.
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