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Sanity -> RE: blackwater sentences handed down (4/15/2015 8:27:38 AM)
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Famed film director Brian De Palma (Scarface, The Untouchables) has completed and publicly screened a new film, Redacted, detailing allegations of a rape by US soldiers in Iraq. The appearance of this film is sad but not surprising. American soldiers fighting against the genocidal aspirations of various fanatics have borne the brunt of a Western media culture that is most interested in casting the Americans as victims or villains. De Palma was reported recently saying,
"When I read about the Mahmudiyah incident in Iraq 2006 -- five US soldiers raped a local girl, killed her and her family and later tried to disguise it as an insurgent attack - I knew I had a story."
De Palma like so many other political reactionaries, knows he has a story when it paints an American soldier in the most negative light. Perhaps more interesting for Americans is what is not a story to him and to many others in the culture business.
What is not a story is a dictator who operated rape rooms. In those rooms untold numbers of women were raped for the amusement of his sons. The government had on its payroll hired rapists who would perform the acts in front of husbands and children. A Harvard study on practices against women during Saddam's rule reported:
"The Iraqi Government uses rape and sexual assault of women to achieve the following goals: to extract information and forced confessions from detained family members; to intimidate Iraqi oppositionists by sending videotapes showing the rape of female family members; and to blackmail Iraqi men into future cooperation with the regime. Some Iraqi authorities even carry personnel cards identifying their official "activity" as the "violation of women's honor."
Amnesty International and other organizations also reported the following violence against women:
"Under the pretext of fighting prostitution, units of ‘Fedayeen Saddam,' the paramilitary organization led by Uday Hussein, Saddam's eldest son, have beheaded in public more than 200 women throughout the country, dumping their severed heads at their families' doorsteps. Many families have been required to display the victim's head on their outside fences for several days. These barbaric acts were carried out in the total absence of any proper judicial procedures and many of the victims were not engaged in prostitution, but were targeted for political reasons. For example, Najat Mohammad Haydar, an obstetrician in Baghdad, was beheaded after criticizing the corruption within health services."
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2007/09/brian_de_palmas_and_rape_in_ir.html#ixzz3XOL6uf2C
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America, Bush, Cheney, American soldiers, the liberation of Iraq, are all very noble for ending such practices
This, despite the manic leftist mantra and propaganda, the ignorance and the hyperbole
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