1. After the bombs, a broom handle is nothing.
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INSTITUTIONALIZED persons -- Abuse of , *CRIMES against prisoners of war , *CRIMES against prisoners , *MILITARY discipline , *HYPOCRISY , *TORTURE (International law) , *IMPERIALISM , *HUMAN rights - Abstract
Looks at the prisoner of war scandal where American troops allegedly tortured Iraqi prisoners. How now matter what one calls it - a breakdown in discipline or the fault of private contractors -- the responsibility cannot be easily shrugged off; How Presidents Bush's branding of the country as an " axis of evil" smacks of hypocrisy; How the President's claims with the support of Great Britain may have contributed to the actions taken against the prisoners; How the "liberation" of Iraq looks like a fraud; How the ancient justification for colonialism has returned without the benevolent rule; How the actions have caused counties such as Saudi Arabia to withdraw the very small human rights they had bestowed on their citizens.
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- 2004