Quote from: Andail on Tue 04/05/2004 22:37:28What makes me mad?
American soldiers abusing and humiliating iraqi p.o.w:s
That makes me mad too, but it's important to understand that it's probably not happening at every prison. Alynn is in the army, and from his posts here I really doubt he'd do such things, and neither would my friends in Iraq. Considering how we treated German POW's in WWII in contrast to non-European ethnic groups now and historically, it is a sad system though. It'd be more effective if we treated the prisoners like our brothers, so they would realize that we were not out to get them, just Saddam.
Anyway, ignorance makes me mad, but only if the person is willfully ignorant. I.E. my roomate (on the subject of Iraqi prisoners being abused) said that they deserved it because of what happened during Saddam's reign to innocent prisoners. I replied that these were mostly people JUST LIKE US except Iraqi, not willing war criminals, and he said, "It doesn't matter! They're Iraqis!" It makes me sad. He's also voting for Bush. I kind of want to let the air out of his tires on election day.