I Helped Create ISIS

[eridani]

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/34136-i-helped-create-isis

However, before those abominations could take place, those of us in infantry units had the pleasure of rounding up Iraqis during night raids, zip-tying their hands, black-bagging their heads and throwing them in the back of HUMVEEs and trucks while their wives and kids collapsed to their knees and wailed. Sometimes, we would pick them up during the day. Most of the time they wouldn't resist. Some of them would hold hands while marines would butt-stroke the prisoners in the face. Once they arrived at the detention facility, they would be held for days, weeks, and even months at a time. Their families were never notified. And when they were released, we would drive them from the FOB (Forward Operating Base) to the middle of the desert and release them several miles from their homes.

After we cut their zip-ties and took the black bags off their heads, several of our more deranged marines would fire rounds from their AR-15s into their air or ground, scaring the recently released captives. Always for laughs. Most Iraqis would run, still crying from their long ordeal at the detention facility, hoping some level of freedom awaited them on the outside.
Who knows how long they survived. After all, no one cared. We do know of one former U.S. prisoner who survived: Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of ISIS.

Amazingly, the ability to dehumanize the Iraqi people reached a crescendo after the bullets and explosions concluded, as many marines spent their spare time taking pictures of the dead, often mutilating their corpses for fun or poking their bloated bodies with sticks for some cheap laughs. Because iPhones weren't available at the time, several marines came to Iraq with digital cameras. Those cameras contain an untold history of the war in Iraq, a history the West hopes the world forgets. That history and those cameras also contain footage of wanton massacres and numerous other war crimes, realities the Iraqis don't have the pleasure of forgetting.

[madokie]

1. Until those responsible

are held accountable there will be NO peace. Simple as that!

[tecelote]

2. How can we call ourselves a moral nation?

Our solution is perpetuating the problem. The only thing it is creating is hatred and profit.

Take the profit out of our wars and they will end tomorrow.

I hang my head in shame. I thought we were better than this. I expected Barack to bring peace but that didn't happen. Now people want Hillary to continue the bloodshed. I don't understand how we have sunk so low.

[newfie11]

3. I so agree

We've got to get control of the MIC but I don't see that happening.

[MH1]

4. This is why we don't get to decide which dictator "must go".

This is why we don't get to help depose dictators with our military.

Okay, as the ruling power in the world, I guess we "get to". And we did. And see the results.

People will cry and moan about the despicable acts of a Hussein or Assad, but it is not up to us to topple that dictator.