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Seabiscuit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-25-05 01:51 AM Original message |
WTF is wrong with our military? Why Abu Ghraib? Why Guantanamo? |
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chalky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-25-05 01:55 AM Response to Original message |
1. Considering the latest revelations about our "contractors" |
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Seabiscuit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-25-05 02:07 AM Response to Reply #1 |
6. That's a civil law question. But militarily, the reponsibility's still on |
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chalky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-25-05 02:15 AM Response to Reply #6 |
9. If we're looking for answers to "who allowed it to happen", then yes. |
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Seabiscuit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-25-05 02:18 AM Response to Reply #9 |
10. I personally want an account of everyone and everything from the bottom |
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loveable liberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-25-05 02:01 AM Response to Original message |
2. Young, pissed off men, in a crappy situation, getting no support... |
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Seabiscuit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-25-05 02:04 AM Response to Reply #2 |
4. Granted all that. Why now? Why so many atrocities NOW? |
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Mayberry Machiavelli (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-25-05 06:40 AM Response to Reply #4 |
20. The simple answer to your question is, because they were told to. Because |
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ginnyinWI (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-25-05 02:10 AM Response to Reply #2 |
7. it's everything you said, plus two more |
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Seabiscuit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-25-05 02:13 AM Response to Reply #7 |
8. Bingo. |
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ginnyinWI (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-25-05 12:04 PM Response to Reply #8 |
23. minored in Psych. :-) n/t |
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MountainLaurel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-25-05 01:46 PM Response to Reply #7 |
29. Was that the Stanford experiment? |
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lenidog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-25-05 02:03 AM Response to Original message |
3. This isn't anything new its happened in ALL of America's wars |
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Seabiscuit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-25-05 02:05 AM Response to Reply #3 |
5. So where was the Abu Graib and Guantanamo of Vietnam? |
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chalky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-25-05 02:23 AM Response to Reply #5 |
12. Check out |
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lenidog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-25-05 02:27 AM Response to Reply #5 |
13. In Vietnam it didn't happen in one place it happened all over |
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DuaneBidoux (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-25-05 12:20 PM Response to Reply #3 |
25. It happens in war. Period. |
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DELUSIONAL (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-25-05 02:20 AM Response to Original message |
11. Lack of Leadership |
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opihimoimoi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-25-05 02:29 AM Response to Reply #11 |
14. Lack of Sanity, Reason, Class, and Common Sense |
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Barak And Roll (87 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-25-05 02:50 AM Response to Original message |
15. Sadly, it happens quite simply... |
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ngGale (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-25-05 05:10 AM Response to Original message |
16. Contractor's doing their thing at the expense of our... |
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Spider Jerusalem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-25-05 06:15 AM Response to Original message |
17. Nothing new here. |
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bklyncowgirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-25-05 06:20 AM Response to Original message |
18. Given the stress these soldiers are under I'm surprised it isn't worse. |
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many a good man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-25-05 06:31 AM Response to Original message |
19. Failure of leadership |
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Algorem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-25-05 06:54 AM Response to Original message |
21. idiot sadists like in these e-mails to editor, |
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Jose Diablo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-25-05 08:40 AM Response to Original message |
22. I don't think it is our 'regular' soldiers doing this |
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DuaneBidoux (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-25-05 12:19 PM Response to Original message |
24. Nothing is wrong. Everything is going as it always does. |
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kitkat65 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-25-05 12:23 PM Response to Original message |
26. One certain factor: the Iraq-al Qaeda connection lie |
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PATRICK (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-25-05 12:31 PM Response to Original message |
27. I'll take a stab |
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mandomom (327 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-25-05 01:43 PM Response to Original message |
28. Nothing's wrong with them. |
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DinahMoeHum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-25-05 02:18 PM Response to Original message |
30. Piss. Poor. Leadership. |
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FrenchieCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-25-05 02:30 PM Response to Original message |
31. easy.... |
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1democracy (142 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-25-05 04:24 PM Response to Reply #31 |
32. Redefined "torture" |
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