[hole_n_one]

There is no comparison between what Saddam and his neighborhood butchers did to the Iraqi people for over 30 years, and a handful of badly led, unfit troops committing atrocities

I never suggested there was.

I did suggest however, that any attempt to excuse what has been alleged to have been perpetrated by US forces against Iraqi prisoners of war as being anything other than unacceptable, is, in a word, wrong.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

I am not excusing the actions of a few, and know they will be punished accordingly.

I do resent our OWN free press implicating that these few represent ALL those risking their lives in Iraq and elsewhere - as our OWN free press did when John Kerry and a very few of his co-horts abused their authority during Vietnam. OUR enemy press once again smeared our entire military, and turned public opinion against the war and our best and brightest - mostly men - who actually live by a code of ethics (unlike their destructive press accusers who have yet to be held accountable for the lies they've told throughout this war, and for the lives they continue to destroy with their careless words).