Bdos: An execution? Piffle!

A PHOTOGRAPH, they say, is worth more than a thousand words. There have been more than a few televised photo images around the world since last week, exposing shocking, degrading atrocities against Iraqi prisoners by the occupying forces, primarily United States soldiers and intelligence personnel.

Thank goodness our children have been spared viewing the barbaric execution by Iraqi terrorist elements of the American civilian, Nick Berg, in a grotesque display of the law of the jungle in a direct response, they claimed, for what Americans have done to Iraqi prisoners, men and women.

When will this madness, these murderous, sadistic behaviour of man’s inhumanity to man end? The war for “regime change” in Baghdad has degenerated into a war of sadistic, dehumanising images, as vengeance followed the revulsion over the degradation of prisoners, including rape and forced oral sex.
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For those inclined to rationalise the exposed crimes at Abu Ghraib prison by pointing to the murderous regime of Saddam Hussein and the atrocities being committed also by armed insurgents against American military and civilians in Iraq, former United States Secretary of State Madeline Albright, had publicly cautioned over a week ago: “This is America. We set a higher standard.”

Today, while understandably focused on the mind-boggling crimes as carried out against Iraqi prisoners and the execution of the American civilian, let us not forget the hundreds of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, whose fundamental rights continue to be violated, as they remain in a state of limbo, treated ambiguously as “enemy combatants”.

Here's another Bajan journalist who's got his priorities in order. Note the moral equivalence and knee jerk condemnation of the U.S. implicit in the writer's use of scare quotes. The columnist needs a lexicon so he can comprehend what "atrocity" really means.