if we had caught wind of Saddam’s Republican Guard doing shit like this even once it would have been paraded across the evening news repeatedly as proof of the regime’s brutality and a justification for war
“Israeli army forces strapped a wounded Palestinian man to the hood of a military Jeep during an arrest raid in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin on Saturday.
A video showed a Palestinian resident of Jenin, Mujahed Azmi, on the Jeep that passes two ambulances.”
Yeah but see, Iraq isn't geographically bound to American Christofascist eschatology, so they're not held to the same uhhh high standards as the IDF.
Wait that doesn't seem right, somehow.
If Blackwater contractors did this in Iraq one time, it would be the iconic photo for Blackwater and Erik Prince. Every kid who lived through the WoT would know the photo; it would have been in Encyclopedia Britannica.
MOST MORAL ARMY
Strange:
How does a country come up with the idea of repeatedly - over decades - describing its army as "the most moral"?
And then in practice - over decades - to present a completely different picture?
They're just flaunting it at this point. You can't do student loan forgiveness, you have to pay for Israeli teenagers to fill out a war crimes bingo sheet and then get paid vacation
History is written by two different biases. In the military and political context, the view is often warped by the trope of false information and propaganda.
Tbf the pictures after his regime gassing the Kurds was probably enough.
Then again, there’s been plenty of pictures of Palestinian dead and that’s moved the media position not a jot.
Netanyahu came to Congress to promote invasion of Iraq. "If you take out Saddam, Saddam's regime, I guarantee you that it will have enormous positive reverberations on the region," Netanyahu said.
