Are US soldiers in any way acting as the Nazis storm troopers did ?

Question

The CIA has been kidknapping people from their own country and tortureing them

The US military is ocupying a nation and by so doing supporting an ethnic cleanseing in a civile war that they have clearly taken sides in

The US government refuses to allow secret agents to be tried in an Italian court - In short the US is protecting criminals from prosecution

The US government has argued the validity of the Geneva convention and passed retroactive laws that protect government officals from prosecution in torture cases -

How is this any different from how the Nazis regime behaved ?

jimmyb200...

Point taken

A foot soldier is a foot soldier

The CIA is the Gestopo

You can draw your own comparisons there after

jhl

How dare Bush mis - use your troops so badly !

Matt

Yes it is a disgrace -

The American people have and are being disgraced by the things they are ordered to do on a daily basis

ruth

We still have free press and free speech up here -

heehee

My father fought ww 2 Canada started to fight in 1939 while you sat back and apparently took notes on how to for a few years
My Garandfather fought WW 1
Hardly surpriseing - we went to ww 1 in 1914 - When was it you showed up ?
My Great - great granfather fought you in the war of 1812 to keep Canada free from the traitors to the south -

I know a Nazis when I see it and Bush is it - He is Mis - useing the soldiers and the CIA is no more than the Gestopo now

Shame and disgrace

Limp ****

Gitimo is a holiday resort now ? There have been several news reports about camps set up in various nations - Use your head they aren't day camps

Answer 1

There is good evidence that Bush is attempting to trigger an "accidental conflict," as a pretext to justify "limited strikes". The Raw Story has published a "Build Up To Iran Timeline" that documents all the moves on the chessboard.

Meanwhile, as I've been warning since January of 2005, US Special Forces have been operating within Iran since at least 2004. Unlike US news sources, the world has better information about what is going on in Iran.

India Times: Economic Times

Bomb blasts struck Iranian government buildings in the capital of an oil-rich border province, followed within hours by two other bombs in central Tehran, killing nine people, days before presidential elections.

Iran’s security service blamed the bombings on Sunday — the deadliest in Iran in more than a decade — on supporters of ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. State-run TV quoted hospital officials as saying at least eight people were killed and 86 injured in four explosions in Ahvaz, the capital of the southwestern Khuzestan province bordering Iraq.

Hours later, two small bombs exploded in central Tehran, killing one person and wounding four. Police said one suspect was taken into custody. A spokesman for the Supreme National Security Council, Iran’s top security decision-making body, blamed groups affiliated to Saddam’s former Baathist regime in Iraq. State TV quoted spokesman Ali Agha Mohammadi as saying the perpetrators of the Ahvaz bombings had infiltrated into Iran from Basra in southern Iraq. There have long been reports that the US has enlisted Sadaam's Iranian terrorist organization, Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) to carry out US policy. The Raw Story reports on the not so secret Cheney/Rumsfeld order outsourcing special ops and intelligence to MEK.

According to all three intelligence sources, military and intelligence officials alike were alarmed that instead of securing a known terrorist organization, which has been responsible for acts of terror against Iranian targets and individuals all over the world – including US civilian and military casualties – Rumsfeld under instructions from Cheney, began using the group on special ops missions into Iran to pave the way for a potential Iran strike.

“They are doing whatever they want, no oversight at all,” one intelligence source said.

Indeed, Saddam Hussein himself had used the MEK for acts of terror against non-Sunni Muslims and had assigned domestic security detail to the MEK as a way of policing dissent among his own people. It was under the guidance of MEK ‘policing’ that Iraqi citizens who were not Sunni were routinely tortured, attacked and arrested. Although the specifics of what the MEK is being used for remain unclear, a UN official close to the Security Council explained that the newly renamed MEK soldiers are being run instead of military advance teams, committing acts of violence in hopes of staging an insurgency of the Iranian Sunni population.

“We are already at war,” the UN official told RAW STORY.

Asked how long the MEK agents have been active in the region under the guidance of the US military civilian leadership, the UN official explained that the clandestine war had been going on for roughly a year and included unmanned drones run jointly by several agencies.

Answer 2

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The US military is ocupying a nation and by so doing supporting an ethnic cleanseing in a civile war that they have clearly taken sides in
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Oh really? Which flipping side did we take, I must have missed it.

It can't be Shiite, we currently hate Iran, and they are backing the Shiites. It can't be Suni, they are harboring the terrorists. And the Kurds are not in the middle of it (and they are Sunni BTW). So WHAT side are we taking?

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The US government refuses to allow secret agents to be tried in an Italian court - In short the US is protecting criminals from prosecution
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What does that have to do with US soldiers? Spys and secret agents, by definition are not soldiers.

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The US government has argued the validity of the Geneva convention and passed retroactive laws that protect government officals from prosecution in torture cases -
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Again, I didn't see soldiers or US Military anywhere in that quote.

So yes, you do not like the current adminstration. Neither do I. I don't get the "Are US soldiers in any way acting as the Nazis storm troopers did ? " part though. None of your argument is based on actions of US soldiers.

Answer 3

You're young, and you're obviously not Jewish. The short answer is: No, we're not like the Nazis. The long answer is: What you are describing is American Imperialism at work. As it turns out, American Imperialism is good for you (and for the other readers, here, most of whom are contributing more heat than light to the discussion). Unfortunately, American Imperialism is pretty crappy for a lot of other people on the planet. Remember, if you set aside for a moment the idea that we are somehow bringing some better form of civilization to some supposedly backward people, the purpose of colonialism is to take out of someone else's country more than you put into it. It's ugly, plain and simple. That's the game, my friend, and there are good honest people who pay to support that effort, and good honest people who fight (and sometimes die) to support that effort. I wish it were black and white, but it's not. It's terribly nuanced. But don't despair. Keep thinking, and keep asking questions. "The past is prologue."

Answer 4

Nazi,s,,,stormtroopers,,interesting.the SS where the criminals and ruthless ones.stormtroopers are just infantry,well equipped.I have heard a few tales from Iraq.yes a fair comparison to the German worriers,some rapes,they loved that young stuff,pillaging is good too,but you know what that all fails in comparison the the U,S,A government ,s commander in chief,,he Bush is like god. Gestapo leader,,good god watch out.hey you know the m-16 is a p,o,s////the AK-47 works much better in the sand,i got a AR-15 and a semi auto AK-47..the AR-15 is more accurate but that fuuuker jams,ya dude..the AK-47...never misses a beat,mean looking to.cheers free-press,,,,go big red gooooo,,,,

Answer 5

US soldiers past, fought for a different america, one that believed in freedom.

Answer 6

You have Star Wars and real wars mixed up. The storm troopers were on Star Wars and the Nazis were in the real war.

Answer 7

What an irresponsible, immature thing to write. Cite your sources! Bush doesn't execute people who disagree with him. Our troops don't have concentration camps set up. Where do you get off making statements like that without any proof whatsoever?

Answer 8

How many in Nazi Germany could have posted a question like this for the world to see? I doubt those are jack-boots outside your door, so no.

And don't you live in Canada? Yeah, that's what I thought.

Answer 9

It doesn't. I suggest they make the Nuremberg Doctrine mandatory reading at West Point. We hung a lot of Nazis for less than American Officers are doing now.

Answer 10

Well we don't have internment camps for people like you. So you should be thankful that what you wrote is just a bunch contrived lies because if this was Germany in 1943 you would be getting a knock on your door shortly