iraqi child abuse by u.k. military

it utterly, utterly sickens, but does not surprise, me that u.k. troops have been exposed as child abusers : the axis of child abusers - ranking now, in the world's eyes, alongside the evil bastards of the israeli and u.s. military.



what does surprise me is that anyone has the gall to pretend their own 'surprise' that this should occur.



the british army has a well-documented history of child abuse in northern ireland, where roman catholic children were terrified to go near british soldiers for fear of the beatings they would receive.



this sort of behaviour is not the 'one-off' actions of a 'few bad apples'.



this sort of bahaviour is encouraged by our politicians with their ludicrous 'we must support our troops - no matter what' messages, is ordered by high-ranking officers and passed-down through the ranks with a nod and a wink and an assurance that few, if any, will be prosecuted.



those who are prosecuted are those who are stupid enough to allow themselves to be filmed committing their attrocities - the 'few bad apples' dumb enough to get their pictures on the telly - like the few who have been prosecuted for torturing iraqi adults. is anyone really stupid enough to believe that was the only such incident? those who pretend to believe it are liars.



the most culpable criminal in this is bliar; second come the craven bastards who voted for bliar's crazed iraqi war in the house of commons; third come the military commanders who are only too happy to turn a blind eye to the crimes committed by their service-men and -women until the press gets hard evidence of them.



they are the ones who should really be imprisoned for this - not just for these acts of child abuse, but for their prosecution of an illegal, immoral and evil war.