Your wife will protect me you rotten enemy-person!!!

31st January 2006

Your wife will protect me you rotten enemy-person!!!

posted in Impeachment, Politics, War by themaiden |

Jason Kuznicki, at Positive Liberty, comments on our great nation’s use of kidnapping on the battlefield. “What?” you say. “Not us!” We’re the good guys. Oh?

U.S. forces in Iraq, in two instances described in military documents, took custody of the wives of men believed to be insurgents in an apparent attempt to pressure the suspects into giving themselves up.

Both incidents occurred in 2004. In one, members of a shadowy military task force seized a mother who had three young children, still nursing the youngest, “in order to leverage” her husband’s surrender, according to an account by a civilian Defense Intelligence Agency intelligence officer.

In the other, an e-mail exchange includes a U.S. military officer asking “have you tacked a note on the door and challenged him to come get his wife?”

abcnews.go.com/US

We used to be the good guys. Now we are thugs, kidnapping and threatening the innocent like common criminals– like the regimes we oppose. Thanks Mr. President.

Kuznicki closes his article with a wish.

I hope I don’t speak only for myself when I say that my own freedom does not require this protection.

Positive Liberty � Blog Archive � My Freedom Does Not Require This Protection

No. You do not speak only for yourself. Some of us agree that kidnapping nursing mothers and their children is a bit much.

Mr. Bush, think about this next time a reporter is kidnapped and held for ransom. Think about it and keep your mouth shut. You’ve given permission for this kind of behavior. You signed off on it.

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1 On January 31st, 2006, louis said:

While I do believe that the Bush administration lied to the american people in order to go to war, Bush told a lie because he and his administration are oilmen, plain and simple. When his arab opec friends raised the price of oil, saddam would sell oil on the black mkt, thus bringing prices back down. Bush removed saddam and without iraqi oil, opec can raise oil to any price they want thus making bush and his friends even richer. when oil goes up a dollar a barrel, bush, cheney, rice, etc, make millions. it doesnt take a genius to figure this out. we need to get rid of this man(bush)

“I do believe we should fight fire with fire. If they kidnap our people, then we should do the same to theirs.”

They rape women, we rape women. They conscript kids, we conscript kids. They bomb a school, we bomb a school. They practice genocide, we practice genocide.

What you suggest is simply not a sane course of action. What you suggest is a path that leads to violence and more violence with ever decreasing restraints on the brutality. Several cliches come to mind. There is Ghandi’s, I think, “An eye for an eye and the whole world goes blind.” There is “Do unto others as you would ahve them do unto you.” While I am not a complete dove, there is something to these little quips. What does it say about you if you judge your actions by your enemy’s standards?

2 On April 5th, 2006, hell’s handmaiden » Irony of Ironies! All is Irony! said:

[...] nation is treated in the world. Yeah, that all says ‘credibility’. Let’s kidnap some people. And let’s kill some kids too. That cranks the credibility up a notch as well. [...]