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This story goes back aways in the blogosphere. Bottom line being that don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time.
A lot of people caught serious flak at the time that the story broke. People on both sides. So be it. I myself, have said time and time again that we need to let the system work. Allow it to do it’s job so to speak.
The Hate America First Brigade is having a field day pointing out the Soldiers and Marines that have been convicted of this or that crime in Iraq.
Well? I hate to piss in your Cheerios but these are such a small minority of our armed forces that they are statistical insignificant.
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August 5, 2007 at 12:22
[…] A few bad apples ( Hating America ? I’m getting tired of that line of crap ) […]
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August 5, 2007 at 12:36
As I said, 99.999% of our guys are nothing but top shelf, but as in any other slice of humanity, there is always that FEW…
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August 12, 2007 at 10:22
I want to give a different view here – the opposite in fact.
Having read and inwardly digested Zimbardo’s ‘The Lucifer Effect, How good people turn evil’ – you know, the guy from the Stanford Prison Experiment? anyway – the situation and the leadership are giving the folk out there in Iraq an extremely tough time keeping up to the standards that folk expect of either themselves or others believe they should have…
On finishing the book a little while ago I am still convinced that the only difference between the supposedly normal students who played guards and those of Tier 1A, Abu Ghraib is time… That in no way excuses anything those folk did but we should realise the stress caused by such inadequate means they were given despite Chip Frederick appealing to his superiors for more support before everything went pear-shaped…
In short, if you want to stop having those ‘bad apples’ – go climb the ladder and get those with authority to change the conditions they are in – being able to strip a village of its folk because one may have ‘intel’ for the military only teaches the soldiers on the ground that those folk don’t matter this village or that village…
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