Ok, I really feel the need to give my tuppence about the whole “beheading vs. prisoner abuse” thing in Iraq. Normally, I’d just not say anything because it isn’t worth my breath, but this is really getting to me.
Lots of people have suddenly used this whole situation to make the proclamation that the Iraqi prisoners “had it coming to them” and that it’s fine now because they beheaded an American.
Are you people completely insane? Oh, wait. You still think the light of God himself shines from GW’s asshole. I forget.
1. It’s been systematically proven again and again that Nick Berg was a certified idiot, being told multiple times to leave Iraq, to get out of there, that it wasn’t safe anymore. The dumbass then proceeded to stay in the country. He was captured by Al Queda operatives, who are some of the unscrupulous and dodgy characters in the entire world. You know what? If you get captured by people like that, and you’re American, you are SCREWED. Everyone knows that…except, perhaps, Nick Berg. Therefore, he’s clearly stupid. He was dancing in the flames the whole time yet when he got burned, people blamed the whole country. If you’re too stupid to leave a country that is a) dangerous and b) after you’ve been warned, you deserve whatever you get.
2. There is absolutely NO relation between Iraq and Al Queda and what they stand for or don’t. Al Queda is a group of fuckheads who see fit to destroy anything and everything. To say that because a group of whackos in the country killed your countryman gives you the right to humiliate, abuse, and torture prisoners of war is pure idiocy. That’d be like spanking your son because your daughter spilled her cereal.
3. Prisoners of war are protected by the Geneva Convention and other mandates of international war and conflict. Or, at least, they should be. The United States as a nation of mostly civilized beings and having a lower percentage of revengeful whackaloons than other countries should be held to a higher standard than to torture prisoners. Those soldiers should burn over this one…there’s no call for it and never could be. We agreed to outlaw that sort of warfare, along with nuclear and biological because, although ironically we still participate in war, we strive to hold a higher standard of morals and ethics than that. Whether or not we accomplish this standard is a different discussion. The point is, this was a clear violation in the extreme and extreme punishment should be the proper response.
Wake up, people. Being patriotic does not mean justifying everything your country does. Use your minds and brains, think about what is going on and form your own independent opinions instead of being a sheep.
