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Snazzy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-05-04 12:39 AM
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Guard Commander Disciplined - Nude Photos of Female Soldiers (Iraq Prison)
Edited on Wed May-05-04 12:41 AM by Snazzy
Guard Commander Disciplined for Nude Photos of Female Soldiers
The Associated Press
Published: May 5, 2004

WALNUT CREEK, Calif. (AP) - A former National Guard commander is accused of taking naked pictures of female U.S. soldiers while they showered last year at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, a newspaper reported.

Capt. Leo V. Merck, 32, of Fremont, Calif., faces a court martial, the Contra Costa Times reported in Wednesday editions.

The Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad is at the center of a scandal involving photographs of U.S. Army soldiers subjecting naked Iraqi prisoners to humiliating treatment.

Three female soldiers from the 870th Military Police Company from Pittsburg, Calif., filed the accusations against Merck in November, National Guard officials told the paper Tuesday.

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGAEUQ6ZUTD.html

Edit: add parenthetical Iraq prison to title

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thebigidea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-05-04 12:43 AM
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1. as we speak, deals for TV movies cashing in on this hell are being made
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nothingshocksmeanymore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-05-04 12:46 AM
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2. They should be beating down your door :-)
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thebigidea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-05-04 01:03 AM
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10. (whistles tunelessly and waits for the checks to clear)
Don Knotts and Shannon Tweed are on a collision course with erotic wackiness in War Crimes II: Pantypoint.

Golan and Globus present an experiment in unprecedented tackiness... David Haselhoff as the rugged Commandante Bruise. Akim Tamiroff rounds out the cast as Oily Man #7...

brought to you by Chevron and...

(narrator chokes on own gall)


(studio executives soon swarm around the corpse, vulture-like...)

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nothingshocksmeanymore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-05-04 01:24 AM
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12. ROFL!
You nut :D
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Snazzy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-05-04 12:57 AM
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7. Furggin' unbelievable, ain't it?
Dead prisoners, tortured prisoners, cia and contractors doing who knows what. And all at the spot that our newly minted humanitarianist neocons cited as the prime example of Saddam being a "brutal madman."

Who's the fucking madman now?

Now we get a Captain taking shots of fellow mp's in the shower. I wonder if he got Lynndie England getting knocked up by her boyfriend Charlie Graner--a new challenge to the Paris Hilton tapes no doubt.

Thumbs up! It's like a friggen' Mentos commercial on jimson weed.
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Kool Kitty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-05-04 12:47 AM
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3. And the hits just keep on comin'!!!
Boy, turning this rock over sure exposed lots of maggots.
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-05-04 12:49 AM
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4. It usually does
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Barrett808 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-05-04 12:53 AM
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5. Wait until the photos of nude Iraqi female prisoners are leaked
Then it will truly be mellow.
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daleo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-05-04 12:55 AM
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6. Think how this will sound in the Arab world
Taking photos of U.S. female soldiers showering will get you a court-martial.

Torturing Iraqi prisoners (mostly sexually) and taking photos of it will get you a reprimand.

Not to say the first doesn't deserve a court-martial, but the second obviously deserves more than the first.
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krkaufman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-05-04 01:00 AM
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8. And murder
And murder gets you dropped to private and kicked out of the military.
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bobthedrummer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-05-04 01:43 AM
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14. And assassins and torturers aka mercenaries paid for with our taxes
by the administration of George W. Bush aka The War President walk away facing no prosecution:nuke:
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The_Casual_Observer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-05-04 01:00 AM
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9. So this is what the the real flap is all about
And the in-advance apologies and "outrage" from the WH. Should have known it was something juicy like this, something that will really sour middle America Sunday church goers to the war fought for a "just cause" with God on our side.


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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-05-04 01:07 AM
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11. God, as usual,
takes no sides, just laughst at our eternal stupidity... I fear it is
terminal
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lapfog_1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-05-04 01:35 AM
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13. Ah yes

I, too, belong to the "Laugh Along with God" orthodox religion.

Those that can't laugh along with God are doomed to cry forever at
Man's foibles.
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truthisfreedom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-05-04 02:38 AM
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15. freaking nuts. and the hits just keep on comin'!
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