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The news is depressing. I can’t stop reading it, but it dosn’t even make me angery any more. And I keep thinking “We didn’t have to be there, this didn’t have to happen.” The torture, the muder, the stupid deaths we had a chaice to stop it all…
Our leadership keeps doing what it’s been doing for the past two years, passing the buck to the grunts. Trying to place the blame on a few enlisted men for a system of systematic abuse and torture. Think about it from a lowly MP’s standpoint. After the triumphant victory in Bahgdad, mission accomplished sign and all, you are assigned to guard a prison. Well this won’t be so hard, you think, the hostilities have stopped. But when you get there crazy things start happening; people start lobing mortar shells into the prison, some of the prisoners escape with their Iraqi prison guards, the whole country sems to be falling to pieces.
Some of your fellow MPs like to harass the prisoners, you aren’t really conformtable with it but what are you going to do, you are in a war. Then the CIA guy and the private contractors tell you they like the prisoners to be harrassed before hand. When they are softened up it makes them talk faster. Some of your colleagues take to this with a rather saddistic zeal, but who can blame them. The Iraqi’s are the enemy. And anyway, the CIA guys are actually killing people…
I’m not saying that the prison guards aren’t responsible, but something like this was eventually going happen because of the way this war was planned and because of the way our leadership acted. They lead us there, they are responsible.
Wars are horrible. Some are worth it. I don’t shed any tears over the Nazi’s that were massacred without trial by american troops who liberated concentration camps. That was a war of neccesity. As for Iraq, We never had to be there.