Soldiers in Iraq: some were misled, others . . . ?

[patrice]

Hypothetical explanations for all of the media evidence of the U.S. Terrorizing Iraqi Prisoners at Abu Ghraib and elsewhere . . . . WHY??????????? on earth would anyone create evidence of their own crime?

Maybe the contract-security/intelligence Rambos were going to blackmail detainees into cooperation politically after release. Pictures would be useful for that.

The atrocities? Rape and Murder? Sodomizing children? These go beyond some plan to extract information and "cooperation" from detainees. Something is very wrong with some of "our" people. I don't know much about what makes such people tick, beyond ambition.

Ambition would breed an environment of cooperation between war profiteers and military, for better paying civilian war-contracting jobs upon egress from the military. I have been in the streets since the beginning of this war and I can tell you I have seen quite a few civilians with jobs in this war. Guess what their attitude toward it is.

Anyhow, ambition would predispose some military to cooperate with civilian contractor project goals, in hopes of getting a high paying contractor's job after the military, hence the pressure to proceed with the "prison work" and maybe even blackmail; combined with something I've seen quite a bit in the streets and in big listserves (trolls, during the Kerry campaign), people who ALWAYS refer to Muslims as "Ragheads".

"Rambo in Iraq" is inherently Racist! "Our" whole policy toward Iraq is Racist.

Is it any wonder a majority of Congress would not sign a resolution apologizing for not doing enough to stop lynching?

The South rises again.