“A spoof of Apple Computer’s fluorescent iPod posters commenting on the recent Iraqi prisoner-abuse scandal started cropping up around New York last week. The posters aesthetically mimic the colorful iPod ads but promote ‘iRaq’ with a silhouette of the memorable hooded prisoner hooked up to electric wires. The tagline reads, ‘10,000 volts in your pocket, guilty or innocent,'” MTV reports.
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Poster images here.
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Hmm… don’t know if that’s gonna actually help Apple, or not – I mean, it does require people to know Apple’s Ads to recognize what they’re doing. Then again, it also depicts Apple as somehow being tied in with the Iraqi prison abuse…
Oh Yes This Is Exactly What We Needed… Not
Damn it.
I hope that Apple sues everybody including that Bush and that Gates for this.
Apple has nothing to do with the scandal in the Iraq.
It is Bush/Halliburton/Gates/Microsoft kind of shit.
I don’t think it’ll hurt Apple really.
But, what they should have done is show a hooded iraq fucker beheading an unarmed American…
That’s the Iraq most people know ….
Is MDN part of MSNBC?
Here is so much negative shit that it makes you wonder.
Big deal, it is a poster. I don’t see what the big deal is anyway. Those prisoners are not innocent, they are there for a reason. When did the US become so afarid of its own shadow.
Err, not all are guilty… Innocent until proven guilty? Ring a bell?
Anybody try the new Guacamole flavored Doritos? I’m tempted to get a bag from the vending machine here, but then I hesitate. We’ve been taught since we were kids to avoid green Doritos, so it’s like a survival reflex, ya know? Sometimes they can live in my couch for two, three years maybe, without even a hint of green forming on them. I don’t know. I like guacamole though.
err, I think it was the Red Cross that figured between p-� of the prisoners were innocent bystanders that had been rounded up off the streets.
but yes, Skully is right… they are there for a reason, because America decided to attack their country because of wmd’s.
Typical of liberals and simpletons to take the side of Iraqi prisoners over U.S. troops. We all know that Saddam and his cronies were saints and never abused anybody right??? As for certain bashers from outside of America are concerned (and you know who you are), you can shut the hell up until 2,500+ of your innocent citizens get murdered in one morning. You have absolutely no clue and it shows with your idiotic comments…
If you wanted to see *real* prisoner abuse, you should have stopped by the Abu Ghraib prison back a couple of years ago when Saddam’s buddies were running it. Now *that* was some real abuse. But at that time it didn’t suit the political purposes of the Bush bashers to cry about it then. Talk about your total hypocrites…
Thank you JT. Yes its bad that the abuse happened but its nothing compared to what Saddam did to his prisoners. The worst thing that was hurt was those guys pride. The involved soldiers should be court-martialed and jailed for abuse. Things will start to settle down in the coming months.
When the liberal media decided it needed additional firepower against Bush. This isn’t news. No one was tortured, they were simply embare-assed. You want to start promoting real stories why don’t we look at our own brave men and women who are currently over in Iraq doing what we at home are not. They are the real heroes. They are whom the news stories should be about. In case you all the mamby pamby little hippie tree huggers out there have not noticed I will let them in on a little secret…We are at war. People are not nice in a war. We don’t hold hands with the enemy and wipe there bottoms after they go number two. It is unfortunate that some low life National Guardsmen had to go and make the Armed Forces look like it abused prisoners, but I don’t think they should apologize for their actions. They are at war with the very same enemy, and although it doesn’t excuse their actions it does give reasons for them.
If you want a real news story lets talk about the Pat Tillman�s of the War on Terror and not get all bent out of shape when some National Guardsmen are sick enough to get their rocks off by taking pictures of some nude Prisoners. HELL, SADDAM DID MUCH WORSE. AND IT WAS TO HIS PEOPLE!
Oh, and to the liberal media out there…quit trying to turn our country into a bunch of pussies lacking testicular fortitude!
I wonder if Nick Berg had a choice would he choose to be beheaded or to be forced to put on a pair of woman’s underpants and paraded around. There were other torures committed by our military, but, given a choice, Nick would pick any one of them and then be released to go home to his family. Very few involved are innocent, including our military and those prisoners.
RJS, your comment was just plan stupid. Of course I know “Innocent Until Proven Guilty”, but you try telling the enemy that when he has a gun and you have The Consitution, who do you think is going to walk away from that debate. We are at WAR people. And we will not win this war if people keep thinking our laws can work outside US borders.
Okay, I bought a bag. I figured 55 cents, what the hell, right? Anyway, tore open the bag and nope– this bag, it don’t smell like no guacamole! More like feet dipped in guacamole. The chips themselves taste better though. Nothing I’d hunt down late at night at a 7-Eleven, but I’m not afraid anymore to pump some coinage into that there vending machine. That’s right, vending machine!! I AIN’T AFRAID OF YOU NO MO!! Tomorrow I will head to the break room and try out a bag of the Harvest Cheddar Sun Chips, so I will post a review then. Viva la break room!!
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it’s so great when you guys start to compare levels of abuse! Like you were actually there in either instance. Oh god… still laughing. wow… what a bunch of a-holes.
It’s also great that everyone in support of the war to rid iraq of wmd’s has so conveniently become huge humanitarian soldiers now, out to rid the world of dictators. And they have all become f***ing experts about pre-war Iraq and the atrocities of Saddam (granted their hearing it from Bush and co.)
Nevermind the fact that the good ol U.S. of A. actually SUPPLIED WMD’s to Saddam throughout the 80’s hoping he would use them against Iran.
And I really don’t think that this abuse by the hands of American soldiers was just a bunch of military MP’s deciding to hurt some Iraqis… It was a concerted effort my military intelligence to try to coerce other prisoners to give up intel. And we were doing it against some innocent Iraqis as well as military combatants, both of which are illegal and immoral.
You think if you’re an American you’re morally superior? Prove it and condemn the action of the military intelligence breaking of the Geneva code.
George “Chaos” Bush in Iraq
First year
Steal Oil, torture and kill without justice.
Destroy! Kill!
Real freedom from the international law.
It is nice that Americans want to make more Muslim friends.
Explosively friendly friends.
One pussy from finsht,
you jealous little worm. come on down to NYC and start running your mouth. I’d be happy to see you back it up you little girl! Better yet just stay in your pathetic little hell hole country. You belong there.
billy boy, blow it out your a#$. Yes nevermind we gave wmd’s to Saddam, big freakin deal, we gave him those weapons, he made wrong decisions and now we are just cleaning up the mess. Americans don’t think we are morally superior, we are morally right!!! And don’t forget that you asshole. I’m not going to question a solders descision on the battlefield, they are doing what we want them to do, and if someone gets butt hurt in the process than they can cry mommy.
Vote Libertarian, time to get those Republicrats out, and get our people home. [url=http://www.lp.org]http://www.lp.org[/url]
I’m shocked and disgusted at some of the comments here.
To say that what some Americans are doing isn’t so bad because what Saddam did was much worse is to completely miss the point. Two wrongs do not make a right.
The war was to remove WMD. None have been found.
We were told that Saddam could deploy his WMD with 45 mins notice.
Therefore we knew there were no WMD (as we understand that term) 45 minutes after the start of the war. He didn’t use them, he didn’t have them, the intelligence was wrong.
Afterwards, we are told the term WMD can apply to ordinary battlefields weapons (rifles, machine guns, pistols). This suggest that millions of ordinary Americans have weapons of mass destruction. Of course that is a ridiculous conclusion to draw. Just as Iraq having WMD was a ridiculous conclusion.
I have to shout this part. STOP TAKING REVENGE ON IRAQI PEOPLE FOR 9/11. THEY DIDN’T DO IT ! Saddam had no links with Al-Qaeda. Iraq was a largely secular nation. Not democratic, but what happens if there’s a free election and the guys Bush really doesn’t want to win do win. Do you think the election results would stand ? You’re kidding yourselves if you do.
America should lead by example, but while I’m sure most Americans are good people, America does not treat others with anything like enough care and respect.
I can’t believe that any of you really think that this is the way a liberating force should behave.
Shame on you.
MDN,
Use your editorial perogative and shift the reader response to the lead article at hand, please. Your site is becoming the place for children. Children: you will never know the beauty of life until you stare down the barrel of a machine gun at night……and it’s talking to you as you attack. MDN; lead or lose readership.
Some good points on here. I take back my earlier comments. I am the idiot.
hyworm,
What on earth are you talking about?????? They did find a WMD the other day and confirmed it today. Give me a break. The Iraqi people will be so much better off and so will the world once we overhaul that hell hole. Go back to France and hide you little sissy!
dream on that post wasn’t from JT. Someone pretending again.