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May 2nd 04, 12:08 AM

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On Sat 01 May 2004 02:18:24p, ocom (Michael Bryant) wrote
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Since the Army has decided that the US abusers were unaware that they
were violating the Geneva Convention, torturers are simply being
reassigned.

It does raise some serious questions. Presuming those were MP's inflicting
the abuse, they knew better. They were instructed in POW processing,
detention and treatment in their MOS training.

They should have been immediately relieved of duty and arrested in
accordance with the UCMJ.

If they were not MP's, and it turns out any soldier that could fog a
mirror was given that duty without any further training, then I *still*
think they should have known better. Common sense dictates.

This reeks of command staff that rarely, if ever, set foot within the
lock-up area and contented themselves to shine a chair with their ass in
an air-conditioned office detached from day-to-day operations. That
remains to be seen, but it is what I suspect. All of them, from the
immediate command-staff (for incompetence) to the f'-ups committing the
abuses in the cell block - all are in dire need of being made an example
of. Hopefully, they will be and we should demand that they are made an
example of.

This is an openly acknowledged abberation that should not be claimed as an
indictment on American soldiers or American society as a whole. Anyone who
thinks it does should also indict the whole of Islamic society solely
based on the actions of Islamic terrorists; however, there's no accounting
for simpletons...

They are not 'simply being reassigned'. At least not yet. The article
states that they still face courts martial for an array of charges, any one
of which could bring a long prison term, and all of which would result in
loss of rank, forfeiture of pay and allowances, and dishonorable
discharge.....

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