Human Rights Watch calls for investigation into Iraq goverment
This is from the “they never learn department”; the Associate Press reports that the International “rights group” plucks at low-hanging fruit by calling for an investigation into an Iraqi attack on a school – the Iraqis say that ISIS troops are doing their hiding-behind-civilians-thing again. 21 children were reportedly killed in the attack;
HRW special adviser Fred Abrahams said the Islamic State group “is incredibly brutal, but that’s no excuse for what the Iraqi government is doing.” He called on Iraq’s allies in the fight against the militants “to put pressure on Baghdad to stop this kind of violence.”
You’d think a Human Rights group would be more interested in calling for investigations into the beheading and burial of hundreds of children at the hands of the Islamic State, but, see they’d get no press, and their calls would go unanswered, so they pick on the forces of good, relatively speaking, in this fight, so they can at least get some acknowledgement. Meanwhile perfectly good targets are being ignored.
If the Iraqis have any advantage over US forces, it’s their inherent brutality towards the enemy and it’s pretty much the only thing they bring to the fight that we haven’t given them. So the stank-ass hippies at HRW need to sit down and shut up until ISIS is beaten into a soupy paste then they can whine all they want.
Category: Terror War
This should be no surprise, Jonn. Hand-wringing, self-serving, America-hating libidiot peaceniks have been doing this for close to 50 years now.
During Vietham, they fixated on the relative handful of times US forces went out of control (AKA My Lai) and ignored the hundreds if not thousands of incidents where people were summarily executed by NVA/VK forces – including a systematic extermination of close to 3,000 at Hue, and hundreds/thousands more at other locations during TET.
In the first Gulf War, they focused on a handful of unfortunate incidents – like the bombing of the famous Baghdad bunker that was, unknown to Coalition forces, being used as an ad hoc bomb shelter – vice Hussein’s atrocities in Kuwait and elsewhere.
In Iraq, they focused on the relatively minor idiocy perpetrated by fools at Abu Ghraib vice the far more widespread number of real atrocities perpetrated by Iraqi insurgents (killings, beheadings, burning/dragging bodies thru streets, etc . . . . ).
In Afghanistan, they focus on the relatively small number of collateral civilian casualties caused by the Taliban/other militants hiding among the civilian population, intentionally using that civilian population as human shields.
These people are nothing but anti-American useful idiots. They’re just being used by a different master these days.
And like their previous Communist masters, this new master will drag them to the wall (or the beheading field) first if they ever attain power.
Let them whine all they want to. In fact, send them over there to be witnesses to the atrocities ISIL/IS engages in, just before they themselves are whacked on camera for the shock value.
Warfare used to be a lot more up close and personal, with swords, pikes, battle axes, war hammers, archers, war javelins, maces, morning stars, fighting daggers, etc. The lives of entire villages were disrupted and frequently thrown into ruin.
Now, it’s something reported on the news at noon and 6PM, distant, ugly and not something they want to be involved in. And it’s never the fault of those who started it, in this case ISIl/IS. And these HRW whiners are REAL good at finding sympathetic journalists to go into the war zones and relay the ugly picture, but it’s always the fault of the defender (western nations), never the aggessor. Where were they when Pol Pot’s murderous teen troops were slaughtering their own parents?
I sure hope that some day, these nitwits don’t known on my front gates and ask me for asylum, because I’d have to tell them no, I’m busy feeding the troops.
‘known on my front gates’ should be ‘knock on my front gates’.
Sorry about the brain fry this early.
Investigate by all means. I’m sure we can come up with their airfare. While they are at it, also investigate ISIS.
Gawdalmighty, these people are stupid! I would ask how the hell these HRW bleeding-hearts would resond to being shot at and taking casualties, but we all know that they would have long since run away screaming, and that you could track where they went by following the trail of piss left in their wake.
Oh, the lengths some people will go to appear to be relevant.
Bless their little hearts. And lack of brain density.
I’m just surprised the human rights watch isn’t trying to blame the deaths on Israel.