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Originally Posted by charly
So they said "He's in the army so suitable to guard POWs" and now they throw their hands up in shock when he abused prisoners.
It seems to me you present all the evidence of who he was and then forgive the superiors for not making some basic checks.
but then you thought the invasion of Iraq was a good thing. Go find you 10 or was it 20 reasons why the US inveded Iraq, it's about time I had a good laugh.
You have to remember I said Iraq was going to tunr into a shit sandwich for the US, you said it was going to be a good move. Who is right with hind sight?
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Clueless as ever...aren't you? The Army performed their SOP "basic checks". He was a Reservist...Reservists are not elite troops. Two days a month and two weeks of training per year does not turn out very well trained troops. Reservists are civilians in uniform. Guarding prisoners was within his MOS and his unit was called to active duty thus he was assigned along with his unit to Abu Garade.
I never...made a statement that "it was going to be a good move." I have stated that the goal...if achieved...is a good thing...not only for the US/Western World but for the Mid Eastern countries as well. I have...from the beginning said that to achieve our goal will take one or more decades...and I said from the beginning that I doubt that we will succeed in acheiving our goal as I think the American people will do as they did during the Vietnam era...and demand that our troops be brought home before the mission is completed.
Having said that...Iraq is not a "shit sandwich"...progress has been made...not only in Iraq...but changes in other Mid East countries are in progress...Egypt...Saudi...Libya...Syria...Lebbano n...and Palestine/Israel.