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MrPrax

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Sat May-01-04 03:45 AM
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Shame Of Abuse By Brit Troops

Rogue British troops batter Iraqis in mockery of bid to win over people

A HOODED Iraqi captive is beaten by British soldiers before being thrown from a moving truck and left to die.

The prisoner, aged 18-20, begged for mercy as he was battered with rifle butts and batons in the head and groin, was kicked, stamped and urinated on, and had a gun barrel forced into his mouth.

After an EIGHT-HOUR ordeal, he was left barely conscious and close to death. Bleeding and vomiting and with a broken jaw and missing teeth, he was driven from a Basra camp and hurled off the truck. No one knows if he lived or died.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/tm_objectid=14199634%26method=full%26siteid=50143%26headline=shame%2dof%2dabuse%2dby%2dbrit%2dtroops-name_page.html

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shraby

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Sat May-01-04 04:16 AM
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1. I think it's time

for the armies to go home, get the United Nations in there to help them set up a government and Nato to do the peacekeeping until they can elect their own government, hire their own people to rebuild their country and make a decent life for themselves.
George Bush and Tony Blair sure have made us proud haven't they?

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T_i_B

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Sat May-01-04 05:11 AM
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2. Now what was that we were hearing

from the Blairites about how we are "liberating" Iraq and how we are making Iraq some sort of beacon of "liberal democracy" in the Middle East? Might the Blairites have been lying about that too?

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SodoffBush

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Sat May-01-04 06:14 AM
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3. "Rogue" British troops?

When a country promotes a culture of violence, the hearts and minds of that country's citizenry are likely to follow.

Perhaps Blair and Bush can dismiss their "rogue" troops' behavior as "youthful indiscretions."

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dArKeR

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Sat May-01-04 09:33 AM
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4. 1. Why would one think this is not going on in Afghanistan and Guantanamo

Edited on Sat May-01-04 09:39 AM by dArKeR

too?
2. Where is Woodward to say on Larry King Live that, 'you'd find double this if it was investigated. "That's the rule not the exception"'?
3. Where are the Limbaugh moles in the DU to claim that the Mirror is an unreliable news source?

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