At noon this Sunday, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein declared a general amnesty, releasing nearly every prisoner in the country. “It is the act of a father forgiving his children,” one prison official said. Very few details are available, even days later. It was widely reported that the amnesty was not discharged in an orderly fashion. Crowds rushed into the prisons, and at the Abu Ghraib prison, many inmates were crushed or suffocated in the chaos.Australia’s The Age covered the incredulous response from Iraqi citizens. Sky makes the important point that many missing Kuwaitis from the 1991 invasion could be amongst those freed. The most complete coverage is from the New York Times.
Iraq Empties Jails
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a technology job is no excuse 
wow. dude you are wrong on each and every point. lets see:
1. Bad treatment for US troops means the people that are under US occupation do not see the US troops as ‘liberators’, some of the surveys have mentioned that 9 out of 10 iraqis want the US out.
2. they were SHOT, and the dead body was done whatever to. You need to get your facts straight. and ‘they did it too’ does not justify the ‘liberators’, does it? maybe the fact that 37 Iraqis in jails were tortured to DEATH didnt really bother you much, did it? however those 4 Americans were ‘precious’ enough to ensure bombardment of Fallujah for weeks on end, murdering hundereds of Iraqis that did not have ANYTHING to do with the event.
3. Bush and others apologize? Bush happens to be an extremely arrogant man. he wont apologize, so there goes your theory down the drain.
4. Jessica Lynch says she wasnt raped, the doctors that examined her in Iraq said she wasnt raped.
Daniel Pearl ‘war crime’ ? i didnt know that America was at war with Pakistan, because that is where Daniel Pearl was murdered. umm.. for a war crime, there has to be a war.
5. so the whole world is wrong and you are right.
by the way, $25 compensation will surely go a LONG WAY.
I wonder if the reason for your hatred is your ignorance or is it the other way round.
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ABU GHRAIB HYPOCRISY
First let me say that these crimes must be punished. Everyone is shocked and disgusted by this psychological torture and humiliation, which will effect the victims for the rest of their lives.
But the International Community’s reaction is riddled with hypocrisy:
1. Bad treatment for US troops?
It is conventional wisdom among pundits that ill-treatment by a few US troops will result in worse treatment against American POWs. Really?
In the past, US POWS and even civilians have hardly been treated according to the Geneva Conventions. Daniel Pearl beheaded, the Fallujah four mutilated and burned, Jessica Lynch raped come to mind. Tiger cages and torture in Vietnam, forced death marches and executions during WWII. Perhaps the pundits could tell me of a conflict where American POWs were protected?
The threat of bad treatment for POWs might have more effect if it hadn’t already happened.
2. Torture=bad, Torture-Killing=Good?
How did the world respond when 4 civilians were tortured, mutilated, burned, shot, executed, their bodies parts burned, stepped on, dragged and hung from bridges? In much of the press, it was hardly denounced, and actually used as more evidence of either American failure or blame was cast on the non-combatant civilian workers as being “spieds” or “mercenaries”.
Clearly a few humiliating sexual poses would be preferable to mutilation-death-desecration. Apparently rape, torture, mutilation and execution of Americans POWs and even civilians is okay….
3. Demand for apologies
Here’s the game:
-If you only apologize, Iraqis will forgive you
-Bush and others apologize
-Declare these apologies invalid for some reason — they were too indirect, they were personal statements, etc.
-The apology provokes no forgiveness, only shrill denunciations about trying to sneak out of responsibility. A Saudi paper screamed “Killers should apologize!”
4. War=Bad, Terror=Good?
This is a part of a larger pattern of hypocrisy: War is “evil”, terror is good. War by nations against nations is wrong. Civil war and insurgency are “heroic”. Thus, nations which fight wars must be harangued for real and imagined war-crimes, while their insurgent, terrorist counterparts can extermination civilians, rape, torture and mutilate with impunity—after all, they are not governments, so how can they be held responsible.
Thus, the rape of Jessica Lynch and female soldiers in the first Gulf War are laughed off. Thus, executions of American civilians like Daniel Pearl and an elderly wheel-chair bound Achille Lauro passenger is never called a war crime–the terrorists act with impunity. Only wars are protested; Terrorist atrocities and war crimes are laughed off, ignored, or worse, secretly sympathized and justified.
5. Get ready for more hypocrisy
Some Iraqis despite official apologies and even compensation ,and despite experts from the Arab media who claimed that
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