What kind of bullshit is that?

Army Seized Wives of Suspected Insurgents in Hopes of 'Leveraging' Surrenders 'The U.S. Army in Iraq has at least twice seized and jailed the wives of suspected insurgents in hopes of "leveraging" their husbands into surrender, U.S. military documents show. In one case, a secretive task force locked up the young mother of a nursing baby, a U.S. intelligence officer reported. In the case of a second detainee, one American colonel suggested to another that they catch her husband by tacking a note to the family's door telling him "to come get his wife." The issue of female detentions in Iraq has taken on a higher profile since kidnappers seized American journalist Jill Carroll on Jan. 7 and threatened to kill her unless all Iraqi women detainees are freed. The U.S. military on Thursday freed five of what it said were 11 women among the 14,000 detainees currently held in the 2 1/2-year-old insurgency. All were accused of "aiding terrorists or planting explosives," but an Iraqi government commission found that evidence was lacking. Iraqi human rights activist Hind al-Salehi contends that U.S. anti-insurgent units, coming up empty-handed in raids on suspects' houses, have at times detained wives to pressure men into turning themselves in'.

Has it really come to this? Are we going to act like the Nazi's Gestapo or are we going to try to maintain what little respect we have remaining in the World? Taking women hostage because we can't find their husbands? UnFuckingBelievable! Could you get away with that in this country? When news like this comes out we have absolutely no basis to complain about American women being taken hostage in Iraq. This war, this criminal administration, has turned us into what we hate! Certainly what the rest of the civilized world hates and with good reason.