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QUOTE(mreye @ Feb 18, 2005 -> 02:16 PM)
And, so we should just turn away and not hold them to any kind of human rights standards?  :rolly

 

No, they and everybody else should be held to a basic standard of human rights. Of course the American take is that it should apply to everybody BUT US.

 

I played along and I answered your question, so please do the same here.

 

Where was OUR concern for human rights was when we provided Iraq with critical battle planning assistance AND the WMDs when we knew they were going to be used in decisive battles of the Iran-Iraq war?

 

Where was OUR respect for the Geneva prohibitions in place against such weapons? Obviously our actions - knowing the weapons WOULD BE USED -made us complicit and in direct violation, specifically, of the 'Geneva Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare,' signed on 17 June 1925.

 

The US... covertly aiding and abetting state-sponsored terror? You betcha' - we wrote the book.

 

I obviously don't have to tell you that we flat out stink in protecting the human rights of all of our current and recent Iraqi and Afghan detainees, as a new information on the situation continues to come to light. It's all well and good to talk a good game on the subject of respecting and protecting human rights, but it's just lip-service if you don't walk it like you talk it.

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Sunday in Iraq

 

-2 Iraqi national guardsmen killed by roadside bomb in Baghdad

-1 Iraqi man killed while driving when he was approaching too closely to coalition forces

-1 Iraqi woman dead when non-US troops fired up her vehicle

-2 Iraqi policemen found executed in Mosul

 

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,148176,00.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/stor...4813906,00.html

 

Hilary Clinton: Iraq Insurgency Failing

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Monday in Iraq

 

-3 US soldiers killed by an improvised exploding device

-The 2 indonesian reporters kidnapped on Wednesday were released

-1 Iraqi truck driver killed by insurgents in Baquba

-8 bodies of truck drivers kidnapped days ago found by Iraqi police in Siwara

 

Sunday Updates

 

-A Top noncommissioned Iraqi officer killed in drive by shooting in Wajihiya

-A female Iraqi employee of Nineveh TV kidnapped in Mosul

 

Saturday Updates

 

-A Top Kurdish cleric and his wife killed as they left their home near Kirkuk

 

Other updates

 

-The Iraqi government said Sunday that accused terrorist Sami Ali Faithi was detained during a raid near Mosul on February 1. The government described Faithi as "leader of [a] terrorist cell that included 80 terrorists in Mosul" and said he had links to Mohammed Khalef Shakara, an insurgent with a $50,000 reward on his head.

 

-The Iraqi army captured Jaffar Sadaq Fette on February 3, according to Thair al-Nakib, spokesman for Interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi. Al-Nakib said Fette led a 100-member group responsible for smuggling Iraqis out of the country for training and then back in again. Al-Nakib also said Iraq security forces killed two men, Adel Mujtaba and Abu al-Izz, associated with Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian-born insurgent blamed for many insurgent attacks on U.S. and Iraqi forces.

 

-Faez al-Ashbal, a political adviser in the Iraqi Hezbollah movement who was close to al-Sistani, was killed late last week in a drive-by shooting at his home in west Baghdad's Ghazaliya neighborhood, police said.

 

 

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/02/21/...esia/index.html

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/02/20/...main/index.html

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/1A2...A20578E6CC1.htm

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,148254,00.html

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QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Feb 20, 2005 -> 02:51 PM)
Hey Mods.  I suggest that we rename this thread.........

 

Kips Iraq Death Score Card

Much more fitting a title dont you all agree?

 

Or maybe Kip's Iraq War Report Card.

 

So far it seems there's a lot of failing grades to be handed out.

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im not going to come up in here and say that im smarter than any of you or anything like that, but the thing that keeps getting me is the constant posting of everyday happenings in iraq. Last time i checked this was a war and it is expected that people die unfortunately. it sure would look nice if there was a week where no one died but this war isnt being fought in candyland. But if posting death statistics is your thing, post away.

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QUOTE(flippedoutpunk @ Feb 21, 2005 -> 05:27 PM)
im not going to come up in here and say that im smarter than any of you or anything like that, but the thing that keeps getting me is the constant posting of everyday happenings in iraq.  Last time i checked this was a war and it is expected that people die unfortunately.  it sure would look nice if there was a week where no one died but this war isnt being fought in candyland.  But if posting death statistics is your thing, post away.

 

I have put a lot more than death statistics on here. But if you don't actually read what I write you wouldn't know that, and if you're not reading what I write don't judge it.

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Tuesday in Iraq

 

-The United Iraqi Alliance nominates al-Jaafari to be next Prime Minister

-1 insurgent killed attempting to set up improvised exploding device in Baghdad

-2 Iraqi troops and 1 civilian killed by insurgent attack on a convoy in Baghdad

 

Monday Updates

 

-1 US marine killed while in al-Anbar province

 

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/02/22/...main/index.html

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Wednesday in Iraq

 

-Interim PM Allawi to form broad coalition in effort to become permenant PM

-Borders that were closed for Ashura now reopening

-2 British soldiers convicted of Iraq abuse

-Top politician in United Iraqi Alliance assassinated

-1 US soldier killed by roadside bomb near the city of Tuz

-2 people killed by car bomb attack in Mosul

-2 people killed when their vehicle came under fire from rocket propelled grenades in Kirkuk

-1 Iraqi civilian killed by US forces when his vehicle approached too closely to a military convoy in Mosul

-3 Iraqis were killed when they approached too closely in a vehicle to a building occupied by marines in Haqliniya

 

Tuesday Updates

 

-Female Iraqi reported released

 

 

http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/02...main/index.html

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,148432,00.html

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/7A1...FFBA52E0B0A.htm

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/FD1...1AC01BE5D42.htm

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It would be something if Allawi holds on to the PM after his party finished a distant third in the election. Not that al-Jaafari is the answer, but if he got the gig and then moved toward an Islamist state it would be irksome to many. And not that I think Chalabi would have been the answer before dropping out the other day. Boy, that would make American/Iraq relations interesting.

 

At any rate, the way I understand it, the President and two VPs have to be chosen by the elected national assembly, and then those three have to unanimously decide who the PM should be.

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