Estimated Half of Iraqi Prisoners Are Innocent
posted 7th May 2007 in 2008 Reasons, Liberty, War and Peace by jclifford
Yesterday, USA Today reported that American military officers working in Iraq to train Iraqi soldiers say that about half of the people that the Iraqi Army has taken prisoner are not guilty of any crimes. The newspaper reports that many of these people wrongfully imprisoned by the American-backed Iraqi military end up spending months in prison, and that the problem has become worse as a part of George W. Bush’s new strategy of intensifying the fighting in Iraq.
George W. Bush said that his so-called “surge” would make life better for people in Iraq. Instead, Bush’s plan to prolong the war in Iraq is making the Iraqi government more like the brutal dictatorship that the American invasion kicked out in the first place.
The next time some pro-war extremist tells me that American soldiers are occupying Iraq to defend our freedoms here at home, I think I’ll tell them about this new revelation, and ask how putting huge numbers of innocent Iraqis in prison protects American freedoms. I’m curious as curious can be to see what kind of response I’ll get.
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