Soldiers horrifically abuse Iraqis

The Gaffer · 05-10-2004, 02:37 PM

You're absolutely right, Spock, but:
- they ARE responsible for various strategies to circumvent prisoners' rights under the Geneva convention
- they HAVE deliberately conflated Iraq with 9/11 when patently Iraq had nothing to do with it, thereby labelling anybody who opposes the Coalition as a potential terrorist
- they DO employ tactics of "softening-up" (i.e. torture)
- they ARE in command, so ultimately it's down to them, or else what do you do when the front-line perpetrators say that they were "just following orders"?

So they SHOULD be held responsible to some extent, the question is how much. Go to jail? Lose their job? Nothing? Surely it would depends on the extent to which these events are the direct result of their policies and actions.

What do you think?

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05-10-2004, 02:37 PM	#11
The Gaffer Elf Lord Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: In me taters Posts: 3,288	You're absolutely right, Spock, but: - they ARE responsible for various strategies to circumvent prisoners' rights under the Geneva convention - they HAVE deliberately conflated Iraq with 9/11 when patently Iraq had nothing to do with it, thereby labelling anybody who opposes the Coalition as a potential terrorist - they DO employ tactics of "softening-up" (i.e. torture) - they ARE in command, so ultimately it's down to them, or else what do you do when the front-line perpetrators say that they were "just following orders"? So they SHOULD be held responsible to some extent, the question is how much. Go to jail? Lose their job? Nothing? Surely it would depends on the extent to which these events are the direct result of their policies and actions. What do you think?