December 08, 2004
Terrorists Evil, Liberators Good
Preliminary findings of a military inquiry suggest that some of the recently published photographs of Navy special forces capturing detainees in Iraq were taken for legitimate intelligence-gathering purposes and showed commandos using approved procedures, a Navy spokesman said yesterday. [...]
Navy Cmdr. Jeff Bender said some of the photos are "consistent with the use of tactics, techniques, and procedures in the apprehension of detainees."
He said a photo in which a uniformed man is holding the head of a prisoner to pose him for a picture was for "identification purposes", not a souvenir.
Posted by Eddie Tews at December 8, 2004 03:58 PM
Comments
The men in these photos are just the same as we. One difference being they like people to have zero freedom, but that is not the point. The point is: we send our men to fight (an unjustified war) and then we Court Martial them for killing? Theres no time to be politically correct when fighting people who would kill you in your sleep. I'm not writing to discuss the point of the war, and I am not trying to legitimize the war. I agree we should avoid killing citizens, maltreatment, and more morally painful issues, but we have to kill and take lifes to win this war. People will die, there will be much blood, men will have legs blown off, and people will be eviscerated. Then people will take pictures, but it is a war and these things happen in wars. -- Posted by: Evan livingston on December 13, 2004 05:48 PM