[bin2baghdad]

Everyone KNOWS how the left will respond to this. They've just been waiting for an excuse to spit on us and call us baby-killers. Everyone KNOWS how it will play in the Arab world. That's why I'm more pissed right now at the people who did this than at the left or press or the UN or al-Jazeera. Their response is predictable. Because their response is predictable, the guilty soldiers are responsible for more than simply violating our American values of human decency; they've increased the risk for every soldier on the ground and made it much more difficult to achieve the mission. My commander told us that we would have to work together to achieve our mission - but any private could screw it up all by themselves by behaving badly. He was right. I guess I expect more from my fellow soldiers.

[metesky]

Thank you for your service and welcome to Free Republic.

There was a thread the other day saying that Iraqi guards were responsible for mutilating and killing some prisoners and our men and women were more or less just humiliating the bums. I hope it's true.

Of course they must be punished. There'll be some DDs and some time handed out.

[Long Cut]

Ping to #60, Soldier. Keep reading after that...the slobs at the prison don't have all that many friends here, which is heartening.

[sam_paine]

[The left has] been waiting for an excuse to spit on us and call us baby-killers. Everyone KNOWS how it will play in the Arab world. That's why I'm more pissed right now at the people who did this than at the left or press or the UN or al-Jazeera. Their response is predictable. Because their response is predictable, the guilty soldiers are responsible for more than simply violating our American values of human decency; they've increased the risk for every soldier on the ground and made it much more difficult to achieve the mission.

EXACTLY CORRECT. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE AND THIS STATEMENT. B2B is the kinda moral SOB I expect from this country. End of story.

(But this article was needed comic relief, too.)