So how's the occupation going? Part II

-An international Red Cross report said coalition intelligence officers estimated that 70-90 percent of Iraqi detainees were arrested by mistake, and that Red Cross observers saw U.S. officers mistreating Abu Ghraib prisoners by keeping them naked in dark, empty cells.

-President Bush issued a strong endorsement of embattled Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, telling him, "You are doing a superb job." Bush pledged that those who abused prisoners would be brought to justice.

-Prime Minister Tony Blair told a news conference he did not know the specifics of Red Cross allegations of U.S. and British abuse of Iraqi prisoners until "the last few days."

-Gen. John Abizaid, top commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East, expressed "deep regret" for the abuse of Iraqi prisoners, Bahrain News Agency said. Abizaid was in Bahrain on a tour of the region.

-Control over Abu Ghraib will be negotiated after Iraqis regain sovereignty June 30, the U.S. said.

-The military indicated that no television cameras will be allowed in the courtroom at next week's court-martial of Spc. Jeremy C. Sivits, the first trial in the prison abuse scandal.

-An attorney for Pfc. Lynndie R. England, shown in photographs smiling and gesturing at naked Iraqi prisoners, said the "farm girl from West Virginia" is taking the fall for military shortcomings.

-A U.S. aircraft destroyed a Baghdad office of Muqtada al-Sadr, the radical Shiite cleric.

-U.S. commanders had asked Spanish forces to help hunt down or kill a religious leader, but Spain refused, saying its mission was humanitarian, the defense minister, Jose Bono said. Bono did not specify whether he was referring to al-Sadr.

-U.S. Marines, escorted by Iraqis, entered the center of Fallujah for the first time since the end of the bloody siege last month.

-Insurgents bombed the Faw oil pipeline in southern Iraq on Saturday, slashing daily Iraqi oil exports by about 25 percent, or 450,000 barrels per day, an official said Monday.

-Gunmen fired on a vehicle in the northern oil city of Kirkuk, killing two foreign construction workers and their Iraqi driver, the city's police chief said.

-Al-Taff Martyrs Brigade, a previously unknown group, warned foreigners in Basra — especially Americans, Britons and Kuwaitis — that they will be targeted for kidnapping and assassination.

-Fifty-five percent of the 1,001 adult Britons surveyed for The Independent newspaper said British troops should be withdrawn once sovereignty is handed over to the interim Iraqi government June 30; 28 percent were opposed.

-Amnesty International alleged British soldiers have shot and killed Iraqi civilians, including an 8-year-old girl, in situations where the troops were under no apparent threat.

 

Portugal is considering bringing its 128 troops home in light of the prison scandal.

We've lost 31 soldiers this month.

Rumsfeld is the greatest secretary of defense the US has ever had.

 

Better than Cheney?

 

Woo hoo - first page!



According to Drudge, the unreleased photos include a prisoner forced to masturbate, and US soldiers having sex with each other. This issue is going to get worse before it gets better.

 

I'm sure that everyone on FFA totally understands - the BSSM and Bored@Work people have given up their threads, right?

Right?

 

Has anybody mentioned that U.S. soldiers are having sex with each other?

 

This isn't homosexual relations right? Cause those Republicans can put up with some torture, etc. to save lives but any kinda homosessual canoodliing is gonna bring down some serious heat.

 

can u please then garcia chage then name of the title into like the iraq war! or something more appropriate!
thank u

 

well tell dave to change it then? u sound serious here

 

This title is good. Remember, there is no war in Iraq. That mission has been accomplished.

 

Such as shame

"The Reconstruction of Iraq" would've been a better thread.

 

Are you a student of Orwell?

Some might ask "So how's the conquest going?"

 

yeah thats better!

 

That would be doubleplusgood.

In the news:

Bush approval at new low

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/05/10/war.bush.kerry/index.html

AI claims Brit troops slaughtered Iraqi civilians

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/05/10/iraq.british.troops/index.html

US troops kill 13 Sadr-ists

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/05/11/iraq.main/index.html

 

The comment wasn't directed at you personally.

 

Chocolate, how is the local Kuwaiti media reporting the war and the prisoner abuse scandal?

 

And they're all screaming bloody hell about it, too. I'm not sure which is going to be uglier: the Iraqi occupation, or the BSSMers who feel like their puppy just got shot.

 

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I know what the BS stands for. What about the SM?

 

Senior Members?

I'm profoundly indifferent to the new policy.

 

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I thought it was Spaniards and Mexicans.
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