Re: OT - Innocent men held as Guantanamo Bay prisoners

On 23 Nov 2005 09:57:20 +0200, David Brown
<david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


>
>And what uniforms should they have been wearing, exactly? For the most
>part, these were ordinary people living at (relative) peace in their own
>country, until a foreign power invaded. They took up arms to defend
>their homeland, their culture, their religion, and most of all, their
>freedom.
>

What a charming picture of patriotism and nobility. Except that the
insurgents are mostly Islamic fundamentalists who hate all infidels,
Sunis who hate Shiites, Shiites who hate Sunis, Baathists who miss
being in absolute power, and foreign recruits who want to shread
civilians in markets and mosques with nail bombs in return for a pass
to heaven.

Foreigners defending their homeland?

Culture = fundamentalist rule?

Religion = kill Shiites because we're Suni?

Freedom?


John


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