You have never said anything in it's favor.
Human Rights Watch said it had learned of 25 credible allegations of rape or abduction following interviews with alleged victims, witnesses, Iraqi police and health professionals, and US military police.
ROBERTSON: "Well, it's not a fair criticism really because most people don't know that NATO is already helping in Iraq. Poland and Spain, two of the key NATO allies are putting troops there and running a whole division, a division the size of the country of Hungary, and there are a lot of other nations helping them as well. So NATO structures are helping them to go and relieve some of the burden from British and American troops who have carried them up till now."
flavios story said:The breakdown of the Iraqi government after the war makes any crime hard to quantify. But the incidence of rape and abduction in particular seems to have increased, according to discussions with physicians, law-enforcement officials and families involved.
A new report by Human Rights Watch based on more than 70 interviews with law-enforcement officials, victims and their families, medical personnel and members of the coalition authority found 25 credible reports of abduction and sexual violence since the war.
His parents, from a poor Baghdad neighbourhood, are divorced and the streets or prison are now his home.
The UN officials have also expressed alarm at a reported rise in rape.
Gonz said:By the way, the world is there. I wonder why the media hasn't reported it?
ROBERTSON: "Well, it's not a fair criticism really because most people don't know that NATO is already helping in Iraq. Poland and Spain, two of the key NATO allies are putting troops there and running a whole division, a division the size of the country of Hungary, and there are a lot of other nations helping them as well. So NATO structures are helping them to go and relieve some of the burden from British and American troops who have carried them up till now."
NATO commanding general Lord George Robertson on the "Today Show" 07/29/03.
PuterTutor said:So do you not think that it's possible that these things were going on before, but that the media there was controlled by a dictator and therefore not allowed to report these kinds of things? Do you think that Saddam wanted the papers full of rape, drug use and such, hell no. That would imply he doesn't have strict control of everything. I say this was all happening before, but now that there is a somewhat free press there to report it, we hear about it.
a13antichrist said:What you're claiming is akin to saying "There is more life under the ice surface of Europa [a moon of Jupiter] than there was 1,000 years ago". No-one has any clue what degree of life there was then and so any comparison with today is utter nonsense. Whether it's coincidentally true or not.