To: Born Conservative
Perfect analysis. This will blow over. And any attempt to paint our troops as war criminals as a campaign issue will certainly backfire.
Personally, I don't like what happened there but I am more or less equally pissed that they filmed it as I am that they did it in the first placed.
I got treated worse in my fraternity hell-week than these bozos, except for the guy-on-guy action.
And let's not forget the Arab obsession with being humiliated. In some wierd way this might actually deter some of them from fighting us.
Anyway, this was still a black eye on our PR team. But it will pass.
To: AtavisticThrowback
Agreed; this involves a small group of our troops, and there actions are not reflective of the vast majority of our troops. I also agree with Rush that the pics of the charred bodies in Fallujah are much more inflammatory than these "torture" pics.
BTW, glad to hear you escaped the "guy-on-guy action" during Hell Week!
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05/04/2004 1:16:25 PM PDT by
Born Conservative
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