[lit-ideas] Re: Willie Pete's Role Reversal

  • From: Judy Evans <judithevans1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 18:10:28 +0000

Sunday, November 13, 2005, 5:37:54 PM, Eternitytime1@xxxxxxx wrote:


Eac> This thread seems to be moving away from the Iraqi War to
Eac> an  anti-war-in-general (or, at least, to an anti-military thread)

Nothing wrong with an opposition to war and to militarism: it is after
all 32/11 ("Remembrance Sunday") in a year filled with anniversaries
of war. But it might be more productive to turn to an aspect of the
current war

>Seventh in a series arguing against the Graham Amendment/for the
>Bingaman Amendment regarding habeas corpus at Guantanamo Bay.
>If you agree, please call your senators, and ask them to vote
>for Jeff Bingaman's S. AMDT 2517 to bill S. 1042.
>Senator Graham's full floor speech is here.)

http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/

call your senators:

http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

(I can't find Graham's speech, someone here may know how to)


Eac> Before it completely goes there, I will also again wonder
Eac> how you say that  these soldiers have not talked about their
Eac> experiences?

Vietnam War vets certainly talked, as we know.  But the British
soldiers who abused Iraqi detainees were found out because one took a
reel of film to be developed, a member of the store's staff was
concerned by what she saw, and the store told the police (who arrested
the soldier when he returned to get the photos).

It's feasible that the faked photos in _The Mirror_ were the work of
soldiers concerned about what was occurring (they were brought to the
papers by soldiers)
 
After the war, it's too late for many




-- 
Judy Evans, Cardiff, UK

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