NPFR: POW's

Looks like the Iraqis executed some of the captured Americans?

This will be a bad thing, if true.

However rewind slightly and we can see a bit of British hypocrisy here. The MOD broke the Geneva Convention BEFORE the Iraqis by filming their POWs being paraded, and releasing the footage to the BBC who did not not blur the faces of the Iraqis. The fact that the MOD broke the Geneva Convention was hardly mentioned. The Iraqis do the same, the American's faces are blurred by the BBC, and everyone rants and raves.

The fact is BOTH sides have broken the Geneva Convention as regard the POWs.

Of course we do not know what precisely the Iraqis are doing with their POWs. I hope they start abiding by the Convention now.

I hope those responsible are gutshot and left to die alone in the

Hardly likely with all the TV cameras about the place.

They're not 'poor woggies', they're terrorists. HTH (I'm sure they've all confessed by now, haven't they?).

So that's how Iraq should call the prisonners to justify their acts ?

Euh

'Life is what happens to you when you're busy making other plans'

As far as I know, the Americans have been more careful about this than the British MOD. And the BBC have not helped. Certain amount of very British hypocrisy here.

The are alleged terrorists. No one has brought any charges.

Perhaps some of them were just bearded men in the wrong place at the wrong

Yes. Yes. Bearded men firing Kalishnokovs at Marines in the wrong place at the wrong time. Why, America is such a cruel place that last week six of those Gitmo detainees were released. And what exactly did the Iraqis do with our POWs again? Oh yeah. The first thing they did was hide their gun muzzles behind white flags (talk about gallant!) to take advantage of a lightly armed maintenance battalion, then they shot at least seven in the head execution-style. But please _do_ lecture me on how my country is inhumane in its treatment of prisoners. And don't even try to claim that the Guantanamo bay prisoners qualify as true POWs. A lot of the Iraqis who peacefully surrendered were actually sent home weaponless, but sent home nonetheless. The remaining POWs in Iraq's control, on the other hand, will be guaranteed treatment that is simply unimaginable. And you can bet they will air footage of the prisoners issuing forced denunciations of the U.S. invasion, as if that kind of thing somehow can be believed except by the most brainwashed. But their obtuseness never fails to astound me anymore.

MSNBC and CNN ran the Al Jazeera POW tape as did the Beeb over here. Beebie pixelated the faces, Ted's and Bill's cable news services did not. Go figure.

Kevan, I wasn't serious for goat's sake! I guess I should have put a smiley there somewhere, but I wanted to avoid Smiley overkill, there's enough 'kill' going on already (on both sides, I'm afraid).