Local Iraqis divided over photos /Seattle P-I

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/172421_iraqreax07.html

Friday, May 7, 2004

Local Iraqis divided over photos
Some say Sunni prisoners deserved mistreatment

By JOHN IWASAKI
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER

EVERETT -- The abuse of Iraqi prisoners at the hands of U.S. soldiers draws intense reactions from some who left Iraq to find freedom in Washington state, but prolonged outrage isn't one of them.

While some local Iraqis are bothered by the images, others welcome them.

"It's a terrible thing and it adds more wood to the fire," said Hussein Al-Muhanna, who came to the United States in 1993. "(But) to me, it's not the issue I have to worry about. To me, the main issue is Iraq's future."

Imad al-Turfy, another Everett resident, shows no sympathy for the prisoners, saying their treatment paled when compared with the horrors inflicted under Saddam Hussein's regime.

"They raped our women. They killed our kids. So there's hatred between us, the people here, and the people in Iraq," he said, referring to the Shiite Muslims who emigrated and the Sunni Muslims who ruled Iraq under Saddam.

"Anything coming to them would make me happy."

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Face it. Had they chosen to do so the media could have found people to quote who would have said "sure the priests shouldn't have molested the kids - but morals are so low in America today we really shouldn't detract from the men in the cloth." Wait a second - they all but did find people who said that.

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I mean a REAL Iraqi newspaper, not one under the "guidance" of the US.

I do not doubt that some Iraqis seek justice, but I am pretty certain that they don't want the US's version of "justice"

I think this article can be properly categorized as propaganda.

That's my Canuk Opinion.

And somehow, when I read this article, I got the feeling that we're being dragged into someone else's fight between clans and cities that we have no idea of how it began. We should never have gone into Iraq.

May find his Iraqi Butt in the same sling as Rodney King of Los Angeles and find his birthday present from the COPS as an IRAQI version, of being the honored Guest at the PINATA PARTY thrown in his HONOR