A little more news from Iraq...

[mrph]

US troops face court martial for abuse of Iraqi prisoners.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/04/27/60II/main614063.shtml

Pretty grim reading. Although the really scary bit is the guy who claims that he didn't know he was doing anything wrong because he hadn't seen the Geneva Convention rules until he was charged.

He needed the Geneva Convention to tell him that these things were wrong? Things like attaching wires to prisoners and threatening them with electrocution...? Yeah, right.

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[deeply-spurious.livejournal.com]

When the present of a country describes significant sections of the population of the world as 'evil doers' and specifically sanctions the use of what can only be described as torture in Camp Delta, its not entirely surprising that members of his army find it hard to understand the objections to what they did.