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Thursday, April 29, 2004

LOL, meet the new boss pt2. 


CBS News | Court Martial in Iraq | April 29, 2004?02:19:59:

Same as the old boss.

"It turns out photographs surfaced showing American soldiers abusing and humiliating Iraqis being held at a prison near Baghdad. The Army investigated, and issued a scathing report. "

"We went into Iraq to stop things like this from happening, and indeed, here they are happening under our tutelage,”

"60 Minutes II has a dozen of these pictures, and there are many more – pictures that show Americans, men and women in military uniforms, posing with naked Iraqi prisoners."

"Part of the Army's own investigation is a statement from an Iraqi detainee who charges a translator - hired to work at the prison - with raping a male juvenile prisoner: "They covered all the doors with sheets. I heard the screaming. ...and the female soldier was taking pictures."

There is also a picture of an Iraqi man who appears to be dead -- and badly beaten.
"It's reprehensible that anybody would be taking a picture of that situation,” says Kimmitt.
But what about the situation itself?"

"I think two things. No. 1, this is a small minority of the military, and No. 2, they need to understand that is not the Army,” says Kimmitt. “The Army is a values-based organization. We live by our values. Some of our soldiers every day die by our values, and these acts that you see in these pictures may reflect the actions of individuals, but by God, it doesn't reflect my army."

Well, you don't get to decide what it does or does not reflect, we do. You saying "It's nothing to do with the army" when it is clearly army personnel is nonsense.

Never trust anyone in uniform. They lose their identity and become part of a mob, apparently with pretty much a free reign to do whatever they want.


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