[Broadside Joe]

"bottom line LTC West was not in a position to determine the legal status of the prisoner"


Well then the critics are right in saying that our solders have one hand tied behind their back. I for one do not give a rats backside what their legal status is. This is not a court room and a person wearing a uniform that says that they are on our side and turn out to be otherwise is enough for me. It is this same BS that stopped a Predator from putting a hellfire up Mullah Omar's tailpipe.

[Ispy4u]

Our soldiers do not have anything tied behind their back.

Prisoner handling may well be the most universally identical subject among our armed services. No one has an excuse for mistreating a prisoner.

If you don't want to handle prisoners properly, don't take them, there are multitudes of ways to conduct a legal military operation against enemies that will almost certainly result in their deaths.