Violence begets violence. This saying is proving itself true once again in Iraq. The CIA and US intelligence agencies have overstepped all boundaries of humanity while dealing with captured militants in Iraq.
This has so concerned the US lawmakers that democrats in the House of Representatives have made one of the conditions [AP/Instablogs]in the latest bill passed bythe house [besides of course that US stop military action in Iraq by December 2008] that that all government [the wicked men of the CIA] interrogators rely on the Army Field Manual. Now that would mean they would have to follow the Geneva Conventions and the government has flatly refused to do so, saying terrorists merit no mercy.
But the utter brutality seems to harming the US army in Iraq. Concerns are being raised at the above normal rates of suicides [MSNBC/Reuters]amongst both US and British[Telegraph] soldiers posted in Iraq. The mental scars sustained by soldiers in Iraq remain long after they leave the war-torn country and in some instances Iraq veterans have killed their wives before committing suicide.
The recent bill passed by the House of Representatives has a provision that the president certify to Congress 15 days in advance that a unit being sent into combat is ‘fully mission capable,’ [ read as mentally prepared]. But the “tough” Bush is hardly expected to be too concerned about the mental health of US soldiers. What he wants is the ‘Iraq’ feather on his cap. But US military planners should seriously start to take the factor of psychological damage to US military by Iraq.
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