I am kind of sad because I am new here but I have a feeling you guys are about to Hate me for what I am about to say.
I noticed a few mentioned what our soldiers have seen done by those who claim they are a religion of peace. You only hear what the media allows you to hear. When atrocities actually make it to the media it is downplayed, or the story is never followed through any further. I am an American, but I know my country is guilty of many things. Why do we always assume we are entirly innocent when it come to Muslim conflicts?
Look at it from their point of view, and you might see this a little differantly. It does not excuse what many Muslims have done, but we do the same over there, including dismemberment, it is allowed in the prisons.
I am not Unpatriotic, I have lost quite a few friends over there. Some sent me pictures of beautiful things and beautiful people, and told of the horrors of war. A few were Christians and sometimes they wept at night seeing what the ones on our side who say they were christians were doing.A mother of one told me he was to come home around Christmas, he had a lot to say, He was shocked and dissalusioned over there, but you will never get a chance to hear it, he was the only one killed out of his unit a few days before he was to leave.
I have seen pictures of Abu Ghraib that you will never be allowed to see, they only showed the nicer ones on the News. I have some of those prison pics too, much too graphic than what could be shown here, Some prisoners were also forced into sodomy and other such acts. It is extremly degrading, repulsive, and morally repugnant, now they will hate Americans with even greater passion. I have also seen pics of half nude bleeding women prisoners and little boys who had been raped.
I am not making this up, Google, you will see.
our soldiers have been caught murdering in cold blood innocent citizens, one marine snapped when he lost a buddy in his unit, he then mowed down 24 civilian bystanders, in another case women were shot to death in a car, including a pregnant women, it was too late to save the baby, and in yet another case violent rape and murder.
There are now 6 soldiers in custody for the rape, murder, and coverup of Abeer Qassim Hamza, who has now been proved to have been only 14 years old. After rape they slit her throat, then killed her mother, father, and little sister. They wanted to leave as few witnesses as possible. What bothers me about that one too is why does our media refer to her as only a rape victim, in the US she would be referred to as a minor, or a child. The soldiers lied in an affidavit and gave her age as 25, Records proved she was 14. It has come out that the rape had been planned, they had already seen her and then planned it, the murders may have been an afterthought. The instigator had already been deemed a threat, all warning signs were ignored. My uncle told me stories about the Vietnam war, the are similar. The BBC has interviewed quite a few of our soldiers stationed over there, about how they feel about the civilian deaths, he said “we just shoot the closest farmer we see next to us”. Pigs? Dogs? Ask the surviving relatives of that 14 year old girl who the terrorists are. And we are surprised they do not trust us?