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Re: Another Withers theory goes up in smoke

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From: Bill Ewing
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 19:53
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On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 10:13:17 +1300, Sue Bilstein <sue_bilstein@yahoop.com>
wrote:
>>Bill Ewing wrote:
>>> 
>>> Investigators found many sites in Iraq such as Abu Ghraib where innocent people
>>> had been tortured and killed by the US "liberators".
>>> This shows that the Iraqis are quick to learn from the practices of the
>>> invaders.
>>
>>Or that the Americans were quick to learn from the practices of Iraqis 
>>... Saddam's lot had a fairly comprehensive knowledge of how to be 
>>beastly to people ... or perhaps it shows that there are no peoples who 
>>are 100% squeaky clean when they get the opportunity to behave like 
>>complete shits.
>
>What do we know about what went on at Abu Ghraib?  I've seen pictures
>of people being sexually humiliated and undergoing psychological
>torture (the man standing on a box).  I've seen a picture of those MP
>clowns grinned over a dead body, but no proof that they killed him.

Perhaps the proof was in those photos and videos shown only to the US Congress?
You remember, the ones that members said were too ghastly to show to the general
public.
>And I know the abysmal lack of veracity of people like steve, Bill
>Ewing and Morrissey Breen.  So when they claim people were "tortured
>and killed", or that little boys were sodomised, etc etc, I tend to
>disbelieve them.  

We know that, Sue. Anything that conflicts with your rose-tinted view of the US
military, politicians or president is ignored, swept under the carpet or
disbelieved.
Bill E....
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From: bill7349@yahoo.com (Bill Ewing)
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Subject: Re: Another Withers theory goes up in smoke
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 19:53:30 GMT
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