Comments on: Iraqi Police: Kids Were Decoys In Bombing

Cops Say New Tactic Was Used In Weekend Attack In Northern Baghdad

[feelfree1]

Re: "A U.S. Army soldier pleaded guilty Wednesday to being an accessory to the rape and murder of an Iraqi girl and the slaying of her family, one of the worst atrocities which U.S. forces have been accused of during the Iraq war."

I would agree with this author, that this is one of the most horrific U.S. war-crimes against the people of Iraq. These men intentionally went to this girl's house, executed this 14 year old girl's Parents and 5 year old sister, then gang-raped, executed, and burned the 14 year old girl's body in an effort to conceal the crimes.

It is no wonder that members of these soldiers' unit were executed by Iraq resistance fighters, in retaliation for their sickening acts against this family.

At least one of the soldiers convicted of this gang-rape/mass-murder, will be eligible for parole in 10 years. I can only hope that he moves in next door to the dubious judge who thought that this was an appropriate sentence for this dangerous war criminal.

[cbville72]

General Barbero does not demonstrate any honor in his current capacity, so he must seek to excuse his own mounting war-crimes by any available means, including the kind of unsupported scare-mongering presented here.
Posted by feelfree1 at 10:11 PM : Mar 21, 2007

HMM...Okay so terrorists use kids to blow up a car at a checkpoint and this is what you glean from the story....That General Barbero is a war criminal. Could you change your name please to feelingstupid or feelingliberal. You have advertised to everyone openly that you are an idiot with that post. They used KIDS fro chrisake!! and you fu$King pu$$ie$ want to cry about our Fu$King general.

Sure am glad you are being openminded

[feelfree1]

Re: "Children in the back seat lowered suspicion, (so) we let it move through, they parked the vehicle, the adults run out and detonate it with the children in the back,"

General Barbero seems to be offering us more of his scary brand of "faith-based intel" here, in a possible effort to further justify the targeting of children- (as a potential terror threat:-(.

Barbero told reporters in Washington. "The brutality and ruthless nature of this enemy hasn't changed."

General Barbero has little choice but to demonize his "enemies" as much as possible. His high rank leaves him extremely vulnerable to war-crimes prosecution, for the brutal and illegal war of aggression against Iraq.

General Barbero does not demonstrate any honor in his current capacity, so he must seek to excuse his own mounting war-crimes by any available means, including the kind of unsupported scare-mongering presented here.

[cbville72]

And they are reporting a SIGNIFICANT decrease in explosively formed penetrators. It really sounds like this increase in soldiers isn't working. I am glad the democrats are working diligently on that all important "non-binding" resolution. They just don't get it. You can see the tide beginning to turn in IRAQ and in the approval ratings. I'm sure that resolution will do really well....just like the last one did

An interesting sidenote:
You may be a liberal.... If you attribute every minority problem to entrenched, institutional
racism and the legacies of slavery and segregation

You think marriage is obsolete - except for homosexuals.

You believe the National Rifle Association helps criminals while
the American Civil Liberties Union protects the
innocent.

You are "concerned" about what France thinks of the United States

[cbville72]

Well in reading this article it does look like things are starting to turn around and dare I say (especially for the lefties out there) the PRESIDENTS numbers are starting to go up. If this continues, there will be floods all over the place again fueled by liberal tears.

BTW...
You may be a liberal if....
...You think Anita Hill is a victim and a heroine fighting sexual harassment, and Paula Jones is a lying bimbo.

[j-whitman]

Badax,,, See ya Dan, or George, how about Karl for you ? Get it right, work on it, I will.

[j-whitman]

Dinner time.. see ya.

[j-whitman]

Pick & choose the polls you like is like Bush cherry picking intelligence.

[j-whitman]

Badax,, come on now, you're buddies are always complaining the polls are wrong.

[j-whitman]

Badax,,, Think we can get an accurate poll ?? ABC says things are worse all over Iraq than 2 years ago..... Since neither of us are there, it would be nice to find out..... Let's see what happens if insurgents lay down thier arms, or Iraq votes to get us out.... Too dam much missinformation floating around, on all sides.

[j-whitman]

Badax,,, Think we can get an accurate poll ?? ABC says things are worse all over Iraq than 2 years ago..... Since neither of us are there, it would be nice to find out..... Let's see what happens if insurgents lay down thier arms, or Iraq votes to get us out.... Too dam much missinformation floating around, on all sides.

[samthetvcat]

Well you just knew this was coming - clearly some sects of the muslim religion don't view suicide in the same light as us. I can understand how for the sake of expediency at checkpoints how they would make the assumption that if there were kids in the car then there wouldn't be bombs since it hadn't happened yet before, but it's not like this was totally unpredictable (or at least it shouldn't have been). I still say it's pointless to try and argue with a different culture over values.

[j-whitman]

aardbear,,, ARMAGEDDON ??? That happened around 4,000 years ago.... What might work is what the Iraq government is doing,, Talking to the insurgents.

[j-whitman]

Musty,,, Fighting a Civil War is destracting from the mission at hand don't you think ??? -- Just what is insufficient use of deadly force ?? Using it on those who don't pose a threat is wrongfull use of deadly force.

[musty2u]

Our insufficient use of deadly force in the first place should not keep us from the mission at hand. Ramp it up and rock on!

[gunnerv1]

mcdazz- AS MANY AS IT TAKES, you know the old saying "Kill'em all, let God sort'em out" "When in doubt, empty the magazine"

bill1fj wrote:

"This was not a suicide bombing.
It is murder.
Lets go in and do what has to be done in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Iran, once and for all.
Either do the job or get out."

So, you're plan is to fight murder with murder.

How many innocents do you personally want to kill?

1? 2? 1000?

Morons like you offer no solutions except to go in with both guns blazing.

Thanks to that moron GW Bush, that has already happened - and guess what?

That's why Iraq is in this mess.

GW Bush is the reason why innocents are dying - but that's ok, he's getting the oil.

[scott4261]

Remind me again... How has this war of choice helped Iraqis? Approximately 1.5 million Iraqi refugees have escaped their war-torn home country for Syria and Jordan. And another 750,000 Iraqis are entirely homeless. Inflation in Iraq in 2006 was 50%. Unemployment ranges from 25% to 60%, when curfews don't prohibit work. Fully 40% of Iraqi professionals... doctors, teachers, attorneys, accountants, nurses... have fled the country since the U.S. invasion. And as of May 2006, 25% of Iraqi children suffered from malnutrition.

So tell me again.

[random_radar]

"Lets go in and do what has to be done in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Iran, once and for all.
Either do the job or get out.

Posted by bill1fj at 04:50 PM : Mar 21, 2007"

Remind me again what the job is and how we can do it? It sounds like we are going to end up killing every man, woman, and child in Iraq, or else every man, woman, and child in Iraq is going to die killing us.

[imiri-2009]

It's terrible to think that human beings can be as ruthless as to kill children in the name of an idea. Children should be the most important part of all of us. Even though I am against every war, I cannot blame those soldiers who have to face every day an enemy that respects no rule, and that uses children to perpetrate his criminal actions (criminal because no reason can be so good to justify the killing of children). A soldier facing such an enemy cannot avoid being scared, and no training can be so effective to eliminate the feeling that it's a matter of kill the first if you don't want to be killed. It's hard to understand, when one is home, and I think it's terrible for those soldiers too.