Posted on 08/10/2006 1:52:10 PM PDT by TexKat
Much ado about nothing, IMO.
Does John Kerry have a long lost son?
"Oh, the humanity of it all."
"They look at the fact that I put an (Iraqi = terrorist, murderer of innocents, women and children) before an ( American = one who makes iraqis wear underwear on head)."
hmmm, did i get the facts right here?
bad american soldier
poor abused terrorists
You always hear about the abuse, but nothing about the prisoners or why they were there.
Sounds like a 60s frat party...
Give me a choice between an American run detention center or any foreign run one, and I'd choose the USA everytime. 9 out of 10 terrorist agree ;-)
Lets break out the ABu Gharib stories now to take our eyes off the ball (In the words of CT's Lamont)
Traitor? Not really. Slimey weasel SOB might work better. Hey, what did they do with guys like this in Nam?
While the whole incident is/was over blown, this soldier did the right thing. He saw something that he thought was not in compliance with his understanding of the required conduct of his fellow soldiers ... and contacted the military investigators with his concerns.
Didn't these pictures first end up on the Internet and that's where the "scandal" got started?
If so, then this guy is revising history.
Devout muslim men are so queer.
Entirely respectable behavior.What has been despicable was the publication of those photos for the purpose of embarassing the government, event though the government was handling the investigation properly. But that is simply pecking order behavior by journalism; the establishment known not as the establishment but as "objective journalism" will always pick on anyone whose success at getting necessary things done promotes their reputation above that of the journalist.
The only way to escape pecking by journalism is to take on journalism's political coloration - then journalism will say nice things about you, just as they do about Ted Kennedy. For a conservative, the pecking is inevitable.
Blanket party at the least
Sending the pictures anonymously to CID doesn't seem like an unreasonable thing for him to have done.
It's how the situation was handled by others that has been unacceptable.
This should have been handled within the military. Those who deserved to be punished for their actions should have been punished for those actions. However, those photos should not have become public while we are at war.
There is nothing to indicate that such publicity was needed in order to see that justice was served.
Whoever leaked those photos to the public is the person who is a traitor.
Those two really give the military a bad name...they are the trashiest people I have ever seen. How they made a baby I can't believe it. He is just plain a$$ stupid or blind. Loved the picture of her smoking. That was just so attractive (I don't have a problem with anyone smoking, but she was just plain trashy about it).
This jerk should have shown his higher ups and made sure it didn't get to the NY Slimes. He should've known better. Cry baby.
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