Comments on: More Iraqi Rape Allegations

By: pedromd07

pedromd07 — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 22:18:39 +0000

At least rapes are reported and prosecuted now.
In saddams day we never would have found out about it….

By: Nimrod Gently

Nimrod Gently — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 10:13:16 +0000

Why do these Sunni women hate the troops?

By: Quaker in a Basement

Quaker in a Basement — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 21:51:18 +0000

And now, these allegations of rape, are going to undermine the whole country? All is going to h*ll? Doesn’t make sense in context.

Doesn’t make sense in context? Here’s your context:

The country is riven by bitter sectarian animosities. The best hope for ending the internal fighting is for a police force to rise above the intramural divide and work on behalf of all the Iraqi people.

If half the people won’t trust the police, they’ll turn elsewhere for security, most likely the warlords and militias. Or maybe even an outfit like Hamas.

So no, these allegations all on their own aren’t going to undermine the whole country.

But they ain’t helpin’ none, either.

By: Oliver

Oliver — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 21:31:47 +0000

You do understand that the whole rationale (this week) for us leaving Iraq is having Iraqi troops “stand up”. If they’re too busy raping women and informing insurgents as to our movements, we never get to “stand down”.

By: Dugger

Dugger — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 21:27:56 +0000

Ok. Allegations of rape. Happens every place in the world. And this is a country that has seen the violent death of more than amillion of its citizens since 1980. And now, these allegations of rape, are going to undermine the whole country? All is going to h*ll? Doesn’t make sense in context.