Strategyking92 said:
legal warfare? That's exactly what's wrong with this country. Yeah, it's a shame that friendly fire happens. But it's impossible to avoid. But if that's what wikileaks was trying to do, they wouldn't have also stolen regular combat sitrep's. And that could reveal pattern's in movement that al-queda or the taliban would love to know. Just think how easy it could be to wage a wage if you knew where the enemy was going to be. And then afterwards your enemy hand feeds you the results of the battle. Yeah, no big deal at all.
Nah, the guy is just an asshat. |
no, friendly fire isn't what was brought up in the leaked documents. All the illegal things were all prisoner related battery. Prisoners were treated horridly, some raped, beaten, malnourished, etc. And also incidents like killing civilians that could easily been prevented or were just cared out because soldiers were ordered to kill innocent people. That is what was brought up in the UN with the leaked documents, and what all allied forces are now contending with in the UN. The USA can't backtalk themselves out of doing these types of things and will be fined by the UN for breaking the law.
These things needed to be brought to light, and I read some of the documents. Most of them were just US or UK soldier was here, checking out prison, prisoner beaten, and then the document was classified and sealed without any farther investigation into matters that centered around if the prisoner was treated justly or not. No strategies were revealed, just how big of douche-bags the bureaucrats at the pentagon are towards our POWs during combat.
