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re: Abusive Soldiers

posted at 5/7/2004 8:33 PM - (There are 11 messages in This Topic)
ID# 71342
This is a reply to: 71316
One thing I have to comment is the following.

I believe (my belief) from what I have read, heard and seen by process media is that the soliders were ordered to do it by Army investigators so that the prisoner are more willing to talk to investigators. If that is the case, those solider who are trained to follow orders should not be faulted (esp. if they raised any objections) and that those investigators should be court martial.

However, on the other side of the coin, I can see how soliders can get real frustrated with the occurances of the war. 700+ solider are dead (many possibly their buddies) and they just feel real depress and they need to do something inspiring. So if an investigator comes down and tells them to rough the POWs of Iraq up, it will make them feel productive in a war

Of course, this completely contridicts any hope of this "just" war. Windy is correct about the WoMD (making the Bush look foolish but it does not seem to take much these days). And now, we look no better than Saddam on the human rights front.