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You are absolutely correct about the Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib, and that is why the soldiers there were prosecuted and have been sentenced, in some cases, to serve time. But the joke was about the prisoners at Guantanamo, Cuba, who were "illegal"combatants, fighting without uniforms, and thus without the protections of the Geneva convention. (In every war until now, such combatants were summarily executed on the battlefield.) If you have read about them recently, you may have heard that they have gained 18lbs of weight on average, get rations that are almost twice what our average soldier in the field gets, and are given recliners to sit in, while our military troops must often sleep in cots with little furnishings. When the enemy captures our soldiers, they neither jail them, nor try them, nor "torture"them like frat boys; they torture and then behead them, and then desecrate their corpses. Not to be morbid, but it's a morbid subject.
My girlfriend is serving in the army and is stationed in Afghanistan. I am not supposed to say much about her activities, but you should be aware that our soldiers are serving under much harsher conditions than are the prisoners at Gitmo, and they are subject to risks much worse than the prisoners at Abu Ghraib. Yet they are very professional, for the most part, and take such things as the Abu Ghraib scandal very seriously. Not because it hurts our enemies, but because we hold ourselves to high standards as civilized men.
Ted
(Edited by Ted Keer
on 10/08, 7:41pm)
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