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Having failed in every other method of lying to inflict defeat on the United States, and knowing the high regard in which the American people hold the US military, the media and the left will now commence a Vietnam-like attempt to slander the military as a whole and the front-line troops in particular.

Remember the point of the Abu Ghraib circle-jerk was to blame Bush for the abuse via the expanded interrogation guidelines issued at the beginning of the WOT.

The point now (as in Vietnam) will be to portray all American servicemen and women as beasts: look at the Op Ed in the WaPo today alleging the 'complicity' of military medical personnel in 'torture'-- a not so subtle warning that medical personnel in the miltary will be blackballed after discharge by leftists in the medical profession because of their 'participation in torture and an immoral war'.

See Article 32 Investigation/Grand Jury Similarity to help put these accusations in perspective.

The preferral of court-marital charges is merely an accusation, according to today's statement. "Those accused are presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt," officials stated.

More from the BBC

Sunday, July 9th, 2006
BBC
Four US soldiers have been charged with rape and murder over an attack on an Iraqi woman who was killed along with her family last March.
The soldiers, on active duty in Iraq, are accused of conspiring with former soldier Steven Green to commit the crimes in Mahmudiya, south of Baghdad.
Mr Green, who is being held in the US, denies the rape and murder charges.
A fifth soldier serving in Iraq has been charged with dereliction of duty for failing to report the offences.
Investigation
The US military did not release the names of the soldiers charged in Iraq. They are all infantrymen from the 101st Airborne division, one of the elite US army units.
A statement said they would face an Article 32 investigation, similar to a grand jury hearing in civilian law.
Mr Green denied raping the Iraqi woman and murdering her and three members of her family when he appeared in court in Louisville, Kentucky on Friday.
He faces a possible death sentence if found guilty.
The woman he is alleged to have raped and killed was aged between 14 and 20, the US military says.
The case is one of five investigations in which US troops are accused of murdering Iraqi civilians.