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Date: 4/30/2003 11:21:00 PM
From Authorid: 55967
I think yes, we have an initial responsibility until the country can form organized law-enforcement itself. ~GypsyHawk~  |
Date: 5/1/2003 8:18:00 AM
From Authorid: 57404
I think we should, because these people live in a different world so to speak than we do. A lot of them are poor and if we don't deal with the looting, who knows what they will do next. God Bless  |
Date: 5/1/2003 11:20:00 AM
From Authorid: 12835
Well, since we removed their only form of Govt. and all establishments, including the police, then we have an obligation to police and protect until a new form of Govt. and management is put in place.  |
Date: 5/1/2003 6:53:00 PM
From Authorid: 53052
but the war created the looters and allows them to keep looting and without a goverment and a police system they will keep doing it and eventually self destruct? you think that is right?  |
Date: 5/1/2003 7:01:00 PM
From Authorid: 22080
i think we should just help keep the regime from flairing up again, we're not overthere to look like we own the country i thought  |
Date: 5/9/2003 9:56:00 PM
From Authorid: 13119
The US has a moral obligation to try and restore some sort of balance in the country. To say that you don't have to police the country because it isn't your "business" is wrong. The US made it their business when they invaded Iraq. Just because the fighting is over doesn't mean that the obligation is.  |
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Date: 5/9/2003 10:20:00 PM
From Authorid: 12341
I think we need to set straight some priorties. On April 13, 2003, in a dirty Iraqi hospital bed a young boy cried from the pain in his arms. An Iraqi doctor explained to the TV camera that the boy could not be feeling any pain in his arms because he had no arms. They were both blown off when his house was destroyed by an Allied bomb. Amputees are fully aware of the "phantom" pain the boy was experiencing. It is very real to the people feeling it; the brain has not yet adjusted to the fact that a limb is missing. Pain is projected to an imaginary limb for quite some time after the loss. However, the doctor explained that the boy's greatest difficulty had nothing to do with the arm-stump wounds per se; no, the boy was in grave danger of dying of septicemia, which is a just a fancy word for infection but an overwhelming, deadly amount of it. It is treatable under normal circumstances, but with no clean water, let alone antibiotics, the doctor helplessly explained that he could not save the boy. And the reason was the indisputable, appalling fact that on Day 24 of the War on Iraq, when all but sporadic Iraqi resistance had ended, hospitals still had no supplies after being looted into nonexistence. The only reason we know what happened to that boy is that CNN finally aired footage of his plight. However, they did not do so until 2 or 3 days after the BBC (via ITN) had been running that footage regularly on their World News. And, in what I doubt was a coincidence, CNN did not run the images until after Rumsfeld exploded in rage at a Pentagon briefing, accusing the media of exaggerating the looting problems in Iraq. Rumsfeld specifically referred to footage of a young man carrying a stolen vase out of a building. "Over and over and over," Rumsfeld shouted, "That same vase, over and over. I don't think there are that many vases in all of Iraq." After that blast at the media the American TV coverage opened up quite a bit, including the disgusting scenes of the only one of three hospitals in Baghdad, now reduced to rubble by looters, that was nevertheless still doing its best to treat patients. And one of them was the little, armless boy.  |
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