[sinkspur]

It doesn't matter if the rapists were Iraqi or not. If they were Iraqi guards, they were there under *our* command. If they were photographed by our soldiers raping prisoners, and our soldiers failed to stop it but filmed it instead, then that's criminal and immoral.

Absolutely!

You are seeing "the whole story," oceanview. You're just hoping there are extenuating circumstances that help explain it away.

There aren't. The military is not making excuses; it is accepting blame.

This has nothing to do with pornography, or George Soros, and everything to do with vengeance run amuck.

[philman_36]

Well, you've been to the thread and there is a high probability that you've seen replies 249/251/252.
Have you nothing but silence?

[oceanview]

It does matter a whole lot if it was iraqis performing the rapes, and not our soldiers. the photographer should be punished, no doubt. but the chain of command cannot be monitoring these iraqi guards 24x7, an incident of rape may be something that requires 10 minutes in a room out of sight (except from the camera man, who I said should be rolled over), you can't monitor everyone all the time, even though they are under your "command". That's like saying the police commissioner is responsible for every action of every police officer on the street, everywhere, all the time. its just not practical.