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Old 12-18-2004, 07:53 PM
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Originally posted by RACooper
As we have seen (and not seen) in the news over the years, soldiers and administrators of many nationalities have commited horrible acts while their comrades are performing honourably... and no country's forces are immune to it - lest we forget the torture and death of a Somali teen by Canadians; the targeted assassination of sympathizers to the IRA by British Paratroops; the Israeli commander who emptied a magazine into an innocent girl;
the torture and execution of captured Hutu by the Foreign Legion; or even the recent sex-killing of an Iraqi by an American soldier....
http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/news/sto...52.htm&sc=1110
You're comparing isolated incidents to what sounds like a systemic problem, and that just illustrates that this UN scandal is on a whole different level.
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