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As for the Iraqi women who were raped - shame on all of you for being apologists for this sickest of crimes.
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And shame on you for trying to use the tragic crime of rape as a political tool. It is simply a depraved criminal act and the blame falls squarely on the rapist.
Occupying powers - Geneva Conventions - guard the hospitals. Same strategy as was utilized for the oil wells.
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Where are the **Imans? Where are the teachers? Even the **Iman* who got people to bring stuff back said something to the effect, "while looting is bad and against the Koran, it is understandable."
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Uluj!!
Its Imam, not iman. They are being conveniently side-lined by Mr Garner and his stooges.
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Occupying powers - Geneva Conventions - guard the hospitals. Same strategy as was utilized for the oil wells.
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Actually many of the oil facilities were looted and are in poor shape now, mostly in the north.
Wow! look who is looting... naaaa can't be its saddams goons posing GI Joes.
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its simple that whatever is happening is iraq , americans and britishers are responsible for it. they are the occupying forces in iraq and are responsible for maintaining law and order. :-)
The invading forces are responsible for everything now whether they like it or not;
Health
Infrastructure
Economy
Civil Order
Public Works
Power and fuel
....and most importantly development of natural resources.
It just so happens that they've started the list backwards, don't worry guys they'll get there in the end....give it time....another decade or two and you see everything will be fine.
Thap :k: You are so right, they’re just working on the list backwards.
This is slightly related to the issue of what role the Geneva Conventions play as control of Iraq falls into different hands:
Charity’s anger as US halts aid plane, Jamie Wilson
The Guardian, 18 April 2003
Save the Children yesterday accused the US military of allowing children to die after it refused to grant permission for a plane loaded with medical supplies to land in northern Iraq.
…Save the Children said it had been trying for more than a week to fly in enough medical supplies to treat 40,000 people and emergency feeding kits for malnourished children.
The US military has said the charity cannot fly aid supplies into the cities of Arbil and Mosul until the area is safe. But Rob MacGillivray, Save the Children’s emergency programme manager, said the UN had already declared it safe.
“The doctors we are trying to help in Mosul have been struggling against the odds for weeks…but now the help we have promised them is being endlessly delayed,” he said.
“The lack of cooperation from the US military is a breach of the Geneva convention and its protocols, but more importantly the time now being wasted is costing children their lives.”
US army was told to protect looted museum
The priorities were spelled out, but the army command in-the-field decided to turn it topsy turvy.
“US army was told to protect looted museum
The United States army ignored warnings from its own civilian advisers that could have stopped the looting of priceless artefacts in Baghdad, according to leaked documents seen by The Observer.
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Iraq’s national museum is identified as a ‘prime target for looters’ and should be the second top priority for securing by coalition troops after the national bank, says a memo sent last month by the Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance (ORHA), set up to supervise the reconstruction of postwar Iraq.
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The Observer has seen documents submitted to senior US generals by ORHA on 26 March, listing 16 institutions that ‘merit securing as soon as possible to prevent further damage, destruction and or pilferage of records and assets’. First was the national bank, next came the museum. The Oil Ministry, which has been carefully guarded, came sixteenth on a list of 16.
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Another type of ‘looting’ occurring in Iraq.
US accused of plans to loot Iraqi antiques, Liam McDougall
Sunday Herald
US lobby could threaten Iraqi heritage, Donald MacLeod
The Guardian, 10 April 2003
Lost treasures of Iraq [Letter], 14 April 2003, The Guardian
Signed by: Council for British Archaeology, Institute of Field Archaeologists, National Trust for Scotland, National Trust, Cambrian Archaeological Society, All Party Parliamentary Archaeology Group, Royal Archaeological Institute, Heritage Link, ICOMOS UK
*The United States army ignored warnings from its own civilian advisers that could have stopped the looting of priceless artefacts in Baghdad, according to leaked documents seen by The Observer. *
Well as some of the looters were American soldiers themselves how could they?