Depressing, but something people already know. Christo army of US can't help behaving the same way it always has wherever it's been deployed.
WASPies missed out on original Crusades (since WASPyism didn't exist then), so now want to re-enact the christo gory glory - in Iraq, this time.
http://au.news.yahoo.com/070511/2/13fh3.html
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Friday May 11, 08:24 PM
<b>US troops may be shaky on ethics: survey</b>
The US military commander in Iraq told his troops to fight by the rules after a <b>Pentagon survey found many soldiers and Marines back torture and would not report colleagues for killing or injuring civilians.</b>
"This fight depends on securing the population, which must understand that we - not our enemies - occupy the moral high ground," General David Petraeus wrote in a letter dated May 10.
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Petraeus, who took command in February to oversee a troop "surge" aimed at securing Baghdad, said the argument that torture can elicit quick information was "wrong".
"Beyond the basic fact that such actions are illegal, history shows that they also are frequently neither useful or necessary," he said in the one-page letter, which was obtained by Reuters.
The Pentagon survey of ethics, released last week, showed that<b> only 40 per cent of marines and 55 per cent of US Army soldiers deployed in Iraq said they would report a fellow serviceman for killing or injuring an innocent Iraqi.</b>
It also said well over one-third of soldiers and marines believe torture should be allowed to obtain information that could save the lives of US troops or gain knowledge about Iraqi insurgents.
Petraeus said that while seeing a "fellow trooper killed by a barbaric enemy can spark frustration, anger and a desire for immediate revenge", all troops "must observe the standards and values that dictate that we treat noncombatants and detainees with dignity and respect."
Claims of US mistreatment of Iraqi detainees and civilians have shadowed American forces in Iraq - from revelations of abuse at Abu Ghraib prison in 2004 to reports of the <b>Nov. 19, 2005, killing of 24 Iraqi civilians by Marines in Haditha.</b>
According to the survey, conducted between August 28 and October 3, 2006, <b>about 10 per cent of the 1,320 soldiers and 447 Marines questioned said they had mistreated civilians, either through physical violence or damage to their personal property.</b>
It also showed increasing rates of mental health problems for troops on extended or multiple deployments. US Defence Secretary Robert Gates has extended tours for US soldiers in Iraq to up to 15 months instead of one year.
In the letter, Petraeus, who is on his third tour of duty, said that "while we are warriors, we are also all human beings", and urged his troops that if they felt stress they should talk to "your chain of command, <b>your chaplain,</b> or a medical expert."<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->These christo Americans should be sent to the Hague and tried for war crimes. Too late to try them for their past crimes in Vietnam and elsewhere, but Iraq is the present. (And it's good for the tribunal in the Hague too, to finally start trying war criminals.)
And in other news: the US congress passes a resolution to teach the Indoos how to treat other Indoos with 'compassion'. We don't need lessons from terrorist waspies who torture and kill Iraqi civilians, thanks.
WASPies missed out on original Crusades (since WASPyism didn't exist then), so now want to re-enact the christo gory glory - in Iraq, this time.
http://au.news.yahoo.com/070511/2/13fh3.html
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Friday May 11, 08:24 PM
<b>US troops may be shaky on ethics: survey</b>
The US military commander in Iraq told his troops to fight by the rules after a <b>Pentagon survey found many soldiers and Marines back torture and would not report colleagues for killing or injuring civilians.</b>
"This fight depends on securing the population, which must understand that we - not our enemies - occupy the moral high ground," General David Petraeus wrote in a letter dated May 10.
<!--emo&:roll--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/ROTFL.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='ROTFL.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Petraeus, who took command in February to oversee a troop "surge" aimed at securing Baghdad, said the argument that torture can elicit quick information was "wrong".
"Beyond the basic fact that such actions are illegal, history shows that they also are frequently neither useful or necessary," he said in the one-page letter, which was obtained by Reuters.
The Pentagon survey of ethics, released last week, showed that<b> only 40 per cent of marines and 55 per cent of US Army soldiers deployed in Iraq said they would report a fellow serviceman for killing or injuring an innocent Iraqi.</b>
It also said well over one-third of soldiers and marines believe torture should be allowed to obtain information that could save the lives of US troops or gain knowledge about Iraqi insurgents.
Petraeus said that while seeing a "fellow trooper killed by a barbaric enemy can spark frustration, anger and a desire for immediate revenge", all troops "must observe the standards and values that dictate that we treat noncombatants and detainees with dignity and respect."
Claims of US mistreatment of Iraqi detainees and civilians have shadowed American forces in Iraq - from revelations of abuse at Abu Ghraib prison in 2004 to reports of the <b>Nov. 19, 2005, killing of 24 Iraqi civilians by Marines in Haditha.</b>
According to the survey, conducted between August 28 and October 3, 2006, <b>about 10 per cent of the 1,320 soldiers and 447 Marines questioned said they had mistreated civilians, either through physical violence or damage to their personal property.</b>
It also showed increasing rates of mental health problems for troops on extended or multiple deployments. US Defence Secretary Robert Gates has extended tours for US soldiers in Iraq to up to 15 months instead of one year.
In the letter, Petraeus, who is on his third tour of duty, said that "while we are warriors, we are also all human beings", and urged his troops that if they felt stress they should talk to "your chain of command, <b>your chaplain,</b> or a medical expert."<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->These christo Americans should be sent to the Hague and tried for war crimes. Too late to try them for their past crimes in Vietnam and elsewhere, but Iraq is the present. (And it's good for the tribunal in the Hague too, to finally start trying war criminals.)
And in other news: the US congress passes a resolution to teach the Indoos how to treat other Indoos with 'compassion'. We don't need lessons from terrorist waspies who torture and kill Iraqi civilians, thanks.