Monday, July 03, 2006
Less than One Day
In an update to my "Countdown" post of the other day, I wanted to comment on the latest news regarding the horrific rape, burning and slaying of the family in Mahmoudiya.
Ex-G.I. Charged in Slayings of 4 and Rape in Iraq (AP)
Details Emerge in Alleged Army Rape, Killings (Washington Post)
All the stories referring to a woman being raped fail to mention that it was a 15-YEAR-OLD CHILD! (And this is not the first story I've heard of child rape.)
Apparently our "lowered" recruitment standards are indeed biting us in the butt and putting people at real risk in Iraq. From the AP article: "Steven D. Green, a 21-year-old former Army private first class who was recently discharged because of a ''personality disorder,'' appeared in a federal magistrate's courtroom in Charlotte Monday." The only saving grace in this whole thing is apparently the victim was at least shot before she was burned.
As a torture survivor myself, I have always felt that if one dies as a result of being tortured (including rape), it must be the worst possible death. You probably welcome death. But your last thought in the midst of your horrific pain is that dying has to be better than living with the repercussions of your torture and with the fear of living in a world with animals like those who tortured you.
Actually, I think I just insulted non-human animals. Humans have to be most brutal, vicious animals on the planet. No human or any creature deserves to die in pain and terror.
Can you tell just how sick this all makes me? I hate how it makes our good troops look bad and I hate how Iraqi civilian life is treated by too many soldiers as subhuman and at the disposal of Americans.
If Green is guilty, he is essentially a spree killer who was set loose in a population where soldiers have been conditioned to think they are superior and must oppress the civilians, because that's how soldiers are conditioned. Nevermind that they are supposed to be "liberators," their first job is "control," which requires oppression. A very bad combination indeed. Green was identified as having a problem, but just imagine the number of soldiers who haven't been identified with problems. (And consider that for every one of the problem soldiers, there are probably 50 great men and women doing the best job they can under the circumstances. But the Steven Greens make them all look bad. And that's just mean, when these people are willing to put their lives on the line because we as a nation asked them to.)
More information is emerging on the blogosphere that those photos I commented about in that last post are actually being distributed as porn, and have been since at least 2004.
You know what's really creepy? Everything that has happened - as I've written before - has been predicted by people who know TPTB including people in my own family. And among the predictions would be that the pornification of torture-rape of women and children would be among the tactics used in this so-called "war on terror." Which makes it seem more and more like the "war to terrify." Using fear to control, an age-old tactic of imperialists everywhere.
It makes the necessity to get the troops out fast all the more critical. For their sake, for the sake of the morality of this country, and for the sake of Iraqi and Afghani civilians.
Especially the women and children.
Ex-G.I. Charged in Slayings of 4 and Rape in Iraq (AP)
Details Emerge in Alleged Army Rape, Killings (Washington Post)
All the stories referring to a woman being raped fail to mention that it was a 15-YEAR-OLD CHILD! (And this is not the first story I've heard of child rape.)
Apparently our "lowered" recruitment standards are indeed biting us in the butt and putting people at real risk in Iraq. From the AP article: "Steven D. Green, a 21-year-old former Army private first class who was recently discharged because of a ''personality disorder,'' appeared in a federal magistrate's courtroom in Charlotte Monday." The only saving grace in this whole thing is apparently the victim was at least shot before she was burned.
As a torture survivor myself, I have always felt that if one dies as a result of being tortured (including rape), it must be the worst possible death. You probably welcome death. But your last thought in the midst of your horrific pain is that dying has to be better than living with the repercussions of your torture and with the fear of living in a world with animals like those who tortured you.
Actually, I think I just insulted non-human animals. Humans have to be most brutal, vicious animals on the planet. No human or any creature deserves to die in pain and terror.
Can you tell just how sick this all makes me? I hate how it makes our good troops look bad and I hate how Iraqi civilian life is treated by too many soldiers as subhuman and at the disposal of Americans.
If Green is guilty, he is essentially a spree killer who was set loose in a population where soldiers have been conditioned to think they are superior and must oppress the civilians, because that's how soldiers are conditioned. Nevermind that they are supposed to be "liberators," their first job is "control," which requires oppression. A very bad combination indeed. Green was identified as having a problem, but just imagine the number of soldiers who haven't been identified with problems. (And consider that for every one of the problem soldiers, there are probably 50 great men and women doing the best job they can under the circumstances. But the Steven Greens make them all look bad. And that's just mean, when these people are willing to put their lives on the line because we as a nation asked them to.)
More information is emerging on the blogosphere that those photos I commented about in that last post are actually being distributed as porn, and have been since at least 2004.
You know what's really creepy? Everything that has happened - as I've written before - has been predicted by people who know TPTB including people in my own family. And among the predictions would be that the pornification of torture-rape of women and children would be among the tactics used in this so-called "war on terror." Which makes it seem more and more like the "war to terrify." Using fear to control, an age-old tactic of imperialists everywhere.
It makes the necessity to get the troops out fast all the more critical. For their sake, for the sake of the morality of this country, and for the sake of Iraqi and Afghani civilians.
Especially the women and children.
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