America ignored Iraqi torture

[Rath]

Kasz216 said:

Rath said:

The best trained soldiers aren't going to torture, kill and rape. As far as this war goes, the US soldiers that did that sort of stuff (Abu Ghraib and things) were mostly the least well trained and usually there is a breakdown in the chain of command.

Or was it that the best trained soldiers were just smart enough to not take pictures.

This will even happen with the best trained soldiers.  Not in a huge abu graib insident nessessairly.... but you put people in a situation where they are being bombed and attacked on a daily basis, never completely at ease... and you put them in charge of the husbands, wives, children and even their co-conspirators... and you don't think even some of the best trained soldiers snap?

The stresses of war can even make the best trained well intentioned people do terrible things they regret for the rest of their lives.

Man, i'm very pessimistic today.  Probably too much reading about the ins and outs of what various republican and democratic politicians are doing for the elections.

You know your in trouble when the Democrats are making unfounded xenophobic attacks.

Eh, I think the top soldiers are generally conditioned well enough not to snap. Not to say they don't have issues, they just generally don't manifest in such awful ways. 'course, you could be right - I'm mostly just going by the fact that most of the major issues have been involving reservists and the like.

Also I find American politics appalling. It's a system that is in serious need of major reform. NZ politics may be boring and uneventful, but at least its broadly functional.