As a note...everytime some journo hack brings up Gitmo and Abu Gharig...I am going to refer them to this, as well as a whole host of other atrocities the animals we fight in the country commit.
Their response will be that just because the insurgents are barbarians doesn't mean that we should lower ourselves to their level.
That is a debating technique called "framing the argument" in which we have to choose between being the barbarians or being civilized.
The opponents of the war have put us in this box and we have suffered casualties because of it.
War is brutal and savage, life and death judgments are made by young men under extreme duress.
The enemy often uses non combatants or religious sites as shields or traps.
We have to re frame the argument.
"As a note...everytime some journo hack brings up Gitmo and Abu Gharig...I am going to refer them to this, as well as a whole host of other atrocities the animals we fight in the country commit."
hopefully the memory of these two brave young American soldiers along with so many others trying to bring liberty to the Iraqi people can be a rallying cry against those who intentionally obfuscate the real purpose of the Geneva Conventions in order to reach a corrupt end
The person who should be bringing this up -- everytime a reporter mentions Gitmo or AbuGraib -- is our President. He needs to go on the offensive, unleash our military to finish this job and quit trying to play nice.