Wow, I knew the US treated enemy combatants badly but I didn’t know the same applied to those who were their friends
Former Navy man works for company in Baghdad. Man detects strange goings-on in company. Reports strange goings-on to FBI. Man is told to leave company. Man contacts US embassy in Baghdad for help. Company gets raided and man is imprisoned in Baghdad for being a security risk and associating with the people he was informing on (via This Modern World).
He said he had also witnessed another employee giving American soldiers liquor in exchange for bullets and weapon repairs.
I want to know what punishment the American soldiers received. Nothing like Mr Vance suffered, I presume. I’m surprised that his friend, who was also wrongfully imprisoned, went back to Baghdad to work, although I’m sure he’d be buggered (pun intended) if he did anything to help the American troops.
Why didn’t they let Vance tell them that he had a contact in the FBI and then proceed to verify his story and then let him go? How did it get so FUBAR’d? I bet it has something to do with no one wanting to take responsibility if they let him go and he did turn out to be a baddie.
I bet this makes Iraqis feel safe about working with the troops in their country.
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There is an amazing number of things the Bush administration has done wrong in Iraq. I think I posted a comment about how ALL the appointments there were going to “Yes Men” who could prove either they voted for Bush or supported his policies in some major way.
Q: “Experience?” A: “I know the definition of the word.”
Q: “Speak Arabic?” A:”I assume that is the language bin Laden uses in his videos on Al Jazeera.”
Q: “Kissed Bushes ass?” A: “Yes!”
“You are hired!”
Oh good, all my searches to find times when I slagged Bush only come up as one entry in Site Meter. :) I was afraid I was going to look like a stalker or someone obsessed with my own name.
Maybe you’re both. Ahem.
You said you would not tell. :(
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