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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
I believe my position was we should attend to investigating and punishing as appropriate. I think that is what happened.
The thing I didn't understand from you then was what you thought different should happen. You seemed to imply that the incident should point to something more dramatic- leave Iraq? torture some of us to make up? Fire Bush?
Oh, wait , now I remember. You didn't have any point beyond complaining. Business as usual.
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I believe that our points were/are more that:
(a) this shit should not be happening.
(b) the frequency with which it happens suggests that it is either overtly or tacitly approved by those higher up than the enlisted folks who are the usual fall guys.
[There were some fingers pointed at the highest levels, where we do actually have official memos and policies authorizing torture under special circumstances.]
(c) That frequency also suggests a bunch of poorly run detention facilities unless we want this to happen; so . . .
(d) Cut this shit out, and train people properly to treat prisoners properly (and IAW military regulations).
"Hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue."
S_A_M
