you know. abu ghraib was the turning point in the decline of the beginning of the war and the piling on of the democrats to sellout their own president. a few misguided soldiers treated the iraqi combatants like the oregon cops treated rambo in first blood, and used it as a tool to beat bush instead of saddam. as it turns out.... they were right, no harm done.
I recall seeing some unedited film clips of soldiers and Marines shortly after Baghdad fell.
Apparently the commanders at home and in the field neglected to tell these younguns that America was not "at war" with the Iraqi people, as some of those guys were hollering and screaming and throwing feces at Iraqis from their tank positions, all the while calling them ******* ragheads and that they intended to kill 'em all. There was a lot of mental abuse, as well as physical abuse, no doubt about it, until the Abu Ghraib incident which put a stop to such behavior.
Yup.. I think what you say is true but there is another perspective your not considering.. the younguns themselves. These young soldiers are prepared for war, their not trained to love the enemy their trained to kill the enemy. Consider putting your life and body on the line, the excitement and fear, the stress, the relieve that your still alive, the unknown. Perhaps to us civilians war doesn't make sense but we train these young people to do the unnatural dirty work, and there are proven methods of training to get the job done, to win, survive, protect their fellow soldiers and consider the fact that the enemy wasn't dressed up in identifiable opposing army garb, they could easily be part of the crowd..
No doubt there was outrageous abuses and the war turned politically correct after Abu Ghraib but still to use it as a political tool, was chicken shit by the media and the Democrat Party leadership and no doubt put our soldiers in additional danger for political gain..
