[butternut_squash_bisque]

Much ado about nothing, IMO.

[TexasCajun]

Does John Kerry have a long lost son?

[Dark Skies]

"The day we arrived ... we saw like 15 prisoners sitting in their cells in women's underwear"

"Oh, the humanity of it all."

[pipecorp]

"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

[Screamname]

You always hear about the abuse, but nothing about the prisoners or why they were there.

[mikethevike]

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 ;-)

[TexasCajun]

Maybe this disgrunteled soldier was jealous of these two lovebirds?

[Archie Bunker on steroids]

Lets break out the ABu Gharib stories now to take our eyes off the ball (In the words of CT's Lamont)

[Nachum]

Traitor? Not really. Slimey weasel SOB might work better. Hey, what did they do with guys like this in Nam?

[taxcontrol]

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.

[demlosers]

I had the choice between what I knew was morally right and my loyalty to other soldiers. I couldn't have it both ways," the 27-year-old military policeman said in the just-released September issue of Gentleman's Quarterly.

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.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

At first amused by some of the photos, Darby finally decided "it just didn't sit right with me," and sent the CD to the Army's Criminal Investigation Division. Although he did so anonymously, CID agents quickly pinpointed him as the source.

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.

[untrained skeptic]

He isn't a traitor. He justifiably questioned if what was being done was right. It would have been better if he could have voiced his concerns through the chain of command, but that may not have been possible or reasonable.

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.

[Recovering_Democrat]

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.

[A CA Guy]

I don't think the guy who informed military prosecutors should have any worry about revenge at all, he did the right thing.

I think the ones who slipped photos in war time to the press should all be hung by the neck until dead.

How many American civilians, and soldiers died over their actions?
How many terrorist did the leakers help recruit?

[spookadelic]

The soldier did the right thing...
He saw soldiers violating their orders and reported it and gave evidence...

I would have been afraid of retaliation too...

[TonyWojo]

I wonder how much $$$$$$$ he got for the pictures?

[pctech]

So this the traitor who started the whole thing. I never knew how the whole thing got started. This guy ought to be cut off from the american public for choosing the enemy over his own countrymen.

[edzo4]

I am willing to bet the AP has sat on this story just waiting untill they needed to remind the people of how bad bush is.
and on what better day than the day they bust a huge terror plot and connect the dots saving untold numbers of lives

[TexKat]

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