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> US war crimes : how troops tortured Iraqi prisoners

5 May 2004, 06:36

I am a foreign exchange student from Argentina, and in my opinion the U.S. Soldiers were really wrong... but i read in this site before that "YOU CANNOT JUDGE ALL THE US ARMY FOR THE ACTIONS OF A FEW", and they will recieve the punishment that they desserve. They were really WRONG for doing that but probably you should see their point of view, they haven’t been in the US for like a year, living in a really bad conditions plus they know that everyday some US Soldiers is kill in IRAQ in combat or for terrorist actions, a couple of weeks ago we saw in the newspapper a picture where there was a US Soldier haging of a bridge and the Iraquis around the dead body smiling all happy about that... that kinda makes you think...
The US Soldiers are the good guys so they shouldn’t do the same that they do with our troops? or if they broke the rules of the "Geneva Conventions on the treatment of war prisioners", why shouldnt we break them?... That prison everyday gets more prisioners for attacks against US Soldiers, some of them even killed US Soldiers.... and if they get the chance of have a US Soldier as a prisioner IM SO DAMN SURE that they will do everything to him....