Thugs in uniform

Monday, January 30th, 2006 in Political Animals

Isn’t this the sort of tactic we expect from gangsters, rather than the US military?

U.S. forces in Iraq, in two instances described in military documents, took custody of the wives of men believed to be insurgents in an apparent attempt to pressure the suspects into giving themselves up.

Both incidents occurred in 2004. In one, members of a shadowy military task force seized a mother who had three young children, still nursing the youngest, “in order to leverage” her husband’s surrender, according to an account by a civilian Defense Intelligence Agency intelligence officer.

In the other, an e-mail exchange includes a U.S. military officer asking “have you tacked a note on the door and challenged him to come get his wife?”

“Nice family ya got there. Be a shame if anyt’ing wuz ta happen to ‘em…”

Judas Priest on a pogo stick. Are these the “values” we’re supposedly fighting to defend?

Some meat thinks. Some doesn’t. This is what one chunk of meat has on its mind.

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