tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16531245.post113227176067460683..comments2023-09-28T08:06:35.641-04:00Comments on Meanwhile, back at the Ranch...: "Illuminating" the WP discussionel rancherohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03481794179892215503noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16531245.post-1132324090476675492005-11-18T09:28:00.000-05:002005-11-18T09:28:00.000-05:00Now we are down to the heart of the matter. As I h...Now we are down to the heart of the matter. As I have said before I don't know what happened there so I can't discredit the story. What I can tell you is that if something like that happened on purpose it was not a matter of doctrine. From basic every soldier is taught the Geneva Convention, oh I remember the day, a million degrees in a poorly air conditioned room in Georgia watching a poorly made video all about it. And from there it is drilled in, for the same reasons many (my self included) object to prisoner abuse and many other illegalities (it doesn't help us in any way, but that is for another post.) I think what makes this such a big deal is that obviously there are not to many people (or countries) that really like the idea of this war, another is for the anti-war activists who see Lt. Calley (http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/mylai/MYL_ctchar.htm) The point I wish to make is that if civilians were targeted it was either a mistake or some idiot was in charge and it probably didn't come from any higher than a Colonel (and I doubt that high) No career office could weather the shit storm that would be brought upon them by the media or the military if there name was put anywhere clse to an order to kill or injure civilians as we have seen in the case of Gen. Karpinski (http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-05-05-demotion_x.htm?POE=NEWISVA) whom I doubt had as much to do with the torture as she was charged. <BR/>I can't refute what may or may not be fact I can only say that that type of thing is not taught in any military school I have ever heard of.TioChuyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07951711659186912666noreply@blogger.com