From: Cory Przybyla (recherchetenet@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Apr 17 2003 - 11:44:31 MDT
--- Pat Fallon <pfallon@ptd.net> wrote:
> Let's pause now for just a moment to celebrate a
> couple of great moments in U.S. hypocrisy:
> 1. The Pentagon acknowledges, and defends, the
> wearing of civilian clothes by U.S. Special Forces
> operatives in Iraq, but still labels Iraqi soldiers
> out of uniform as 'war criminals.'
>
(http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apmideast_story.asp?category=1107&slug=War%20Civilian%20Clothes
I don't follow where this one was hypocrisy.
"Maj. Gen. Stanley McChrystal, vice director of
operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the war
crime is determined by what the soldier does as well
as what he wears."
Seems reasonable enough, if you're dressing like the
locals, then slaughter them: war crime. If you dress
like them, and obtain information, espionage. Right?
And I suppose one could dress like them, and try to
spurn a revolution which is traitorous, or perhaps try
to free some captives, which is heroic. And so on.
Of course we can't fully know which standard covert US
troops represent, but that falls under the old adage,
"who will guard the guards", an entirely different
issue.
> 2. In northern Iraq, U.S. forces set up bases in
> schools, while the Pentagon continues to ... well,
> you know the rest.
>
(http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/03/1048962881242.html)
This of course I'd agree is hypocritical. And I
wonder why mention "near a prominent Christian
church"? They did they same thing on all the major
media outlets when in [Basra?] they bombed a building
where Fedayeen were supposed to have been meeting, and
raved how with accuracy the Christian church nearby
was left untouched. I also recall another mention of
a Christian church being unharmed although it wasn't
touted nearly as much as the first so I don't recall
the context.
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