Hmmmm, seems like they were doing that already. Or did you miss the reports on the hundreds of brave soldiers that have died since we 'won'? This changes nothing. Islamonuts hate the occupation force no matter what would have been done.
There was NO reason to publish these photos, since the Army already had investigations well underway and were revamping the system. People were already in custody. The report listed the offenses.
In our history, the stories that don't make the media and get to the public tend to be covered over
And in the process, violated the Geneva Convention and made certain that those prisoners in the pictures were humiliated not just before the prison guards but before the entire Arab world.
As if the soldiers didn't violate the Geneva convention in doing it in the first place. Have you even read part II or part III of section I? Practically everything it said not to do, these men and women did. Frankly, I think it's a good thing they're out in the open. Gives the citizens of the respective states a little taste of what these young people have been ingrained from the television media and entertainment divisions of our society.
Of course one couldn't expect anything further reaching to come out of this, say perhaps a responsibility factor on our society for breeding such 'free thinkers' but heck let's blame CBS for throwing it in our face shall we?
The second wrong is that of the media, who in the process of getting the pictures out in order to damage Bush, have indeed endangered the troops in Iraq, and in fact have given us a setback in the war on terror
And this is where you've lost me. Reporting what the youth of this society are doing over there does not threaten them in anyway. Islamics weren't going to love us under any circumstance. Or perhaps you missed the 'popular' US backed newspaper shutting down the other day when the entire staff walked off because of censorship. I want to know this is happening. And from many of the polls out there, the majority of the citizens of the respective states want to know it as well. Frankly, I've already sensed a change in some of the people I work with who served in Desert Storm I compared to older veterans I know
What amazes me is the double standard. Instead of getting upset, 'conservatives' cheer Rummy for standing up in the face of Congressional questioning. I know the era is long gone of expecting our Armed Forces to act a cut above the enemy. Even if they didn't follow the Geneva Convention, our Armed Forces expected themselves to do so. But on this thread, there is cheering when the Armed Forces do stoop to the level of the Islamics. That and lambasting a news organization for telling us they did so with photographs. I don't know what concerns me more. The fact that I see praise for those that would debase a man because they did it to us first or that we shouldn't be told what those who are 'spreading democracy' are doing to accomplish this job.
The rambling WOST continues..
Therefore, billbears, as far as I am concerned you may go pound sand.