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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Is your ivory tower ivory?
Abu gharib much?
This is the first war where papers and TV intrude in what's going on, and so it is upon the administartion to protect soldiers. We didn't need to protect Sgt. Rock because the NYT still saw one side as good.
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Uh, no. Remember Vietnam? My Lai? Lt. Calley? Sy Hersh? David Halberstam? Walter Cronkite getting blamed after Tet?
And Abu Gharib was NOT ON THE FRONT LINES. It was a prison, and those who worked there were not infrantrymen or in the combat arms.
Throw Haditha back at me instead, and I would still say that there is a fundamental difference between a company commander giving way to blood lust and lawyers in the Justice Department saying that so long as major organ damage doesn't occur that it ain't a violation of the law.
You're a lawyer, right? What's the difference between manslaughter and first degree murder in your state?
