Families of the 372nd tormented by stories of POW abuses in Iraq

Baltimore Sun ^ | Originally published April 30, 2004 | Jeff Barker

[davidosborne]

The same facts are being reported by every media source... thats all I care about are the facts not editorializing.... I can see through that,,, and I know you can too..

[Salamander]

Apparently everybody and their dog is hitting that page.
It's photos of posed scenes of "torture" by our troops.
They're all over the news channels now so you've probably already seen most of them.

[alloysteel]

I would suspect a good number of the "perps" in this prisoner abuse fiasco had entered their service careers while the "Former Occupant of the Oval Office, 1993-2001" was still in the process of eviscerating the more noble pursuits of military service, in the process of turning them into "peacekeepers". Some few of these holdovers may have found that they are now in over their heads, and unable to perform in a manner acceptable to the current demands put upon warriors. And by behaving badly, they manage to place a black mark on the record of the Bush Administration. What we have here is simply a reprise of what John F. Kerry did in Viet Nam, running about being a "macho" type, and essentially setting the groundwork for the later protests against the war. Protests which worked very well, incidentally, in providing aid and comfort to the enemy.

At best, these prisoner abusers were abysmally stupid, and at worst, they were actively participating in a plot to discredit the good name of the honorable calling of military service in the name of the United States.