freecounterpoint: A little threat

Thursday, May 04, 2006

A little threat

From the Iranian Chief of Joint Staff:
You saw how we treated the Iraqi PoWs. We viewed them as relatives and treated them as such. But we will not treat the Americans this way.

6 comments:

Arelcao Akleos said...: Treated the Iraquis like cousins??? The same Iraquis that were brought to Tehran and drained of blood to provide supplies for Iranian wounded? It was a close call, in that war, who treated the enemy captured more brutally. The Ayatollahian government or Saddam.
If this is how 'cousins' are treated in the Ummah, please allow me to be no cousin of theirs; 5/04/2006 10:29 PM
Mr roT said...: Beat me to it, AA. Remember the bridge of corpses?; 5/04/2006 10:54 PM
Tecumseh said...: Tell you the truth, I forgot the details about how Saddam and cousins treated each other during their long war -- remember though poison gas was used at some pint. At any rate, it wasn't pretty, more likely, on the gruesome side.

My take though, is that the Iranian general is now telegraphing a message to the effect that, were we to take action against their nuclear sites, and were they capture an American soldier, he would not be treated according to the Geneva conventions. Am I misreading what he said?; 5/04/2006 10:56 PM
Mr roT said...: I think they are talking like that, but US soldiers are pretty high-value acquisitions and the US is tired of seeing atrocities on TV. You extrapolate. Sounds to me like the Mecca Conventions will be in force and the Delanoes of the world sill say we have it coming because of 'Gitmo.; 5/04/2006 11:03 PM
Tecumseh said...: More reason to forgo boots on the ground, and rely instead on the fly boys.; 5/04/2006 11:08 PM
My Frontier Thesis said...: This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.; 5/05/2006 12:41 AM