From: Adam 

Gary Wiltshire wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 10:33:08 -0500, Adam field.near the bridge">
>  wrote:
>
>> Phil Payne wrote:
>>>>> Not proven.  How many times does it have to be said? 
No WMD.  No
>>>>> terrorists.  No rape rooms.
>>>>
>>>> A & B OK but C is endemic.
>>>
>>>
>>> ?
>>
>> No WMD - OK
>
> We'll wait to search Syria for that one, but I'll grant it provisionally.
>

Gee thanks.

>> No Terrorists - OK
>
> Salman Park, and read what is coming out now.
>

No terrorists. Dictatorial police states dislike people not being under
their control.

>> No rape rooms - Rape/torture rooms etc are endemic.
>
> Filmed examples shown to Congress, relatives pulling their disfigured
> dead out of mass graves before cameras.
>>

&? Shrug. Same in lots of Africa, same in Burma same in etc.etc.etc.

Torture as a police method is widespread in that area. Even Turkey,
straining to meet EU norms is still having a hard time
"re-educating" it's internal security forces inc the police &
army.





>>>
>>>
>>>> If all you've known is torture & death squads wrt
"law & order" then in
>>>> a chaotic lawless world they start to look good again.
>>>
>>>
>>> Again - remember what happened when some of the South American regimes
>>> collapsed?  Wall after wall plastered with pictures and appeals for
>>> information about missed loved ones. People who'd been turtured
>>> coming out
>>> of the woodwork showing off their injuries.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Yup. Hard to get a loved one back from the sea when they've attempted a
>> new high diving record from a helicopter.
>>
>> Adam
>
> The lion's share of those were buried as well.  Check out the show
> "Bones," based on the life of someone who has done that sort
of forensic
> work.
>
> --Gary Wiltshire

Did I mention that the record was actually for the high diving from a
helicopter while wearing heavy chains contest?

Luckily Iraq has little in the way of a coastline & even then the sea is shallow.

Adam

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