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A disgusting story. (none / 0) (#2)
by scribe on Mon Mar 10, 2008 at 01:22:27 PM EST
I hope everyone goes and looks at the photo TL linked in.  Then the reader should remember that shortly after that photo was taken, while he was still recovering from those injuries, the torture of this teenager began.

And also read the article and remember that all the while, and during his torture, pieces of shrapnel in his body were slowly "working their way to the surface".  That means, in reality, that those sharp shards of metal were slowly cutting their way through his flesh to reach the surface.  

If there was nothing else, the fact of his torture alone should be sufficient indictment of the criminal conspiracy passing as a government we are saddled with, and whose continuation McBush threatens us with.

And, frankly, just from the grayish color of his face, I'm surprised he survived those injuries.

Yes, apparently it took some pretty herioc (none / 0) (#7)
by sarcastic unnamed one on Mon Mar 10, 2008 at 01:30:24 PM EST
efforts on the part of the US soldiers (who had just watched Omar kill one of their own with a grenade) to save his life.

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Nobody saw where the grenade came from (none / 0) (#13)
by Militarytracy on Mon Mar 10, 2008 at 02:29:32 PM EST


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Good point, there has been some new (none / 0) (#14)
by sarcastic unnamed one on Mon Mar 10, 2008 at 02:50:19 PM EST
info since I last looked into this.

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I have to cut the kid some slack (none / 0) (#15)
by Militarytracy on Mon Mar 10, 2008 at 03:03:18 PM EST
teenagers don't get their frontal lobes in until their early twenties.  In the mean time most of them tend to be prone to following their parents with an unquestioned loyalty because since their infanthood their survival depended on their parents providing for them.  Blood is much thicker than water when you have no frontal lobes yet and you don't feel like death is possible.  I miss living forever.

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Nothing he did excuses being abused, (5.00 / 1) (#17)
by sarcastic unnamed one on Mon Mar 10, 2008 at 04:23:52 PM EST
for me, the issue is whether he did or did not take up arms against US soldiers. It doesn't look like anyone will be able to conclusively prove anything either way, at this point anyway.

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When are (none / 0) (#22)
by Wile ECoyote on Tue Mar 11, 2008 at 06:38:57 AM EST
 the frontal lobes delivered?  At night?

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Sometimes Wile ECoyote (none / 0) (#25)
by Militarytracy on Tue Mar 11, 2008 at 07:01:23 AM EST
some people never get theirs.

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