On Sunday, August 17, 2003, at 03:38 PM, Harmon Seaver wrote:
http://counterpunch.org/cloughley08162003.html
"Col. David Hogg, commander of the 2nd Brigade of the 4th Infantry Division, said tougher methods are being used to gather intelligence. On Wednesday night, he said, his troops picked up the wife and daughter of an Iraqi lieutenant general. They left a note: "If you want your family released, turn yourself in." Such tactics are justified, he said."
There obviously is very, very little difference anymore between the US gov't and the Third Reich anymore. Read the whole article, it's nauseating.
Nothing surprises me about Iraq, Liberia, Kosovo, Somalia, and all of the other countries the U.S. has conquered. Suppression of the press, collection of guns, installation of malleable bureaucrats, shooting of journalists filming in public areas, outlawing of certain political parties, kidnapping of dissidents, creation of concentration camps and gulags... And what do the brainiacs think is going to happen when the Iraqis have their first ostensibly free election? Will Cheney declare it null and void? "The Constitution is too important to use in the Turd World." --Tim May "We should not march into Baghdad. To occupy Iraq would instantly shatter our coalition, turning the whole Arab world against us and make a broken tyrant into a latter- day Arab hero. Assigning young soldiers to a fruitless hunt for a securely entrenched dictator and condemning them to fight in what would be an unwinable urban guerilla war, it could only plunge that part of the world into ever greater instability." --George H. W. Bush, "A World Transformed", 1998