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President Bush and Generals have condemned the acts. I agree -- who couldn't? And, yes, Donut, if she were a part of my family, she'd be an instant black sheep in my eyes.
One of the problems the commanders who were "in the crosshairs" identified was the lack of rules or oversight policies to guide them. While I think some of this is obviously OTT, even for a Jarhead, I still think this is a good point. Our Army/Marine/Military shoud have a general 1-2 page "cheat sheet" of the Geneva and other rules that it hands out to guid commanders.
Oh, I do want to note that in our criminal trials in the US, cases where the police hooked a defendant up to a collander (turned upside down) wired to a Xerox copier and told "if you lie, we will know" ( the phrase "he is lying" was printed on the copier when needed), the confessions resulting from those acts were upheld. In my mind, there is nothing wrong with the police lying to defendants to extract a confession -- it is done all the time (e.g. "your buddy who we arrested said X,Y, and Z").
[ 05-03-2004, 01:47 AM: Message edited by: Timber Loftis ]
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