Is this what is known as liberating Iraq?

[Pervert]

Don't expect to find it among the main headlines on the BBC news site. It isn't even the lead item in the Americas section. Almost as if this is a negative aspect of the war in Iraq, and they don't want to draw attention to it.

This is not an anti-American or anti-allies post; just an example of what happens when you send some impressionable young men into a dangerous situation. A family wiped out because some stupid, brutal, drunken bastards wanted to have an Iraqi woman----except she was a girl of 14, and her family had to die as well.

There is no hell yet envisaged where these bastards would get what they deserve.

[Sam Slater]

Dirty, scummy bastards.

Nothing else to say really.......

[spider]

Don't you think it's funny that you can be sentenced to 100 years - but be eligible for parole in 10 years?

I wonder if Dr John Reid has picked that one up.

That would be a quick fix for prison overcrowding.

[Fraser]

These soldiers were part of the 101st Airborne Division which was the same division Easy Company of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment the famous "Band of Brothers" were part of in WW2. I wonder how those heroes feel about these scum? How things have changed in 60 years.

[Sam Slater]

[quote]Well if they hadn't happened to have been occupying the country it wouldn't have happened at all.[/quote]

and if the Vikings hadn't have lost their battles with the Saxons, and the saxons with the Normans there'd be less of a class system and Empire may never have happened, and Hitler would have won WW2 and Iraq'g government would be Nazi puppets and Saddam would have stayed a peasant, and the Gulf wars would never have happened, and that poor girl would never have been raped by American soldiers, and I wouldn't be writing this, and you wouldn't be reading right now, blah blah blah....

Come on Keith. The family may not have been killed, or the girl raped 'by US soldiers, but you can't state that things would have been 'hunky-dory' for them under Hussain.

[quote]Bet it makes them nostalgic for the good times under President Hussein.[/quote]

Again, that's an insult to every family Saddam destroyed while he was in power. Maybe the family would have been raped, tortured and murdered too under Hussain, but without the trials these scummy soldiers will get.

Blame the individual soldiers, but don't use the poor Iraqi family for political point scoring.........please.

[andy at handiwork]

Not hunky dory, no, but I dont think it takes too large a leap of imagination to realise that as awful as things were under SH, if you didn't stick your head above the parapet politically, you could at least go to the market without being blown up. The Kurds are a separate issue, but our recently found concern for them has to be balanced by western gov's 50 years of couldn't give a shit.

[c.j.jaxxon]

It's been in the news here though nothing major. The way we see it here is probably those soldiers who raped that girl and shot the family thought that since they're american (and white) they could get away with it. The people who join the army or other services tend to be from backgrounds that are less than desirable i. e. poor, no money for college, and now if you don't know, we have racist whites and black gangbangers in the services so if and when you here about something about some Iraqi girl getting raped you can best believe it's the lowest no nothings who do that kind of stuff. Whatcha think?

[Sam Slater]

[quote]The way we see it here is probably those soldiers who raped that girl and shot the family thought that since they're american (and white) they could get away with it.[/quote]

Sgt Paul Cortez was the leader. I've not seen the scumbag, but he doesn't sound 'white' to me. 'Cortez' sound kinda Spanish. I don't know why you had to bring colour into it to be honest c.j. Are you saying Blacks are incapable of rape and murder?

Whatever colour these soldiers were, they're scum all the same.