5 Calif. Guardsmen face charges of abusing Iraqis; military "downplays" it

[Bluebear]

Five California Army National Guard soldiers, all members of a Fullerton-based company, will face courts-martial on charges that they participated in or were complicit in the abuse of Iraqi detainees, according to military officials.

..."A handful of soldiers have disgraced the entire unit," one soldier wrote from Iraq in an e-mail sent to family and friends in California. "They are going to pay for it, but they have sullied the names and reputations of some men whom I regard with the utmost respect and loyalty."

The military, meanwhile, has sought to downplay the problems facing the battalion.

Kent, for instance, referred to the actions of the soldiers facing courts-martial as "suspected terrorist abuse" — though the military has acknowledged that all but one of the detainees involved in the abuse were released from custody.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/iraq/complete/la-me-guard23aug23,1,4764912.story?coll=la-iraq-complete

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1. Dang! More bad apples

I'm beginning to think the Jackson 5 were a bunch of liars.

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. I think we may have bushels and bushels of them

[Bluebear]

3. Oops, that was the Osmonds!

:hi:

And now I will have an earworm~!

[gratuitous]

5. Actually, it was both of them

The version that plays in my particular head features little Michael on the lead vocal, but I think it's the Osmonds doing the backing vocals.

Whatever happened to Michael Jackson, anyway?

[Bluebear]

7. I think it was little Donny!

But, whatever, I still have the earworm!

[Supersedeas]

4. more shame to the chain of command--but the buck has to stop somewhere

[leetrisck]

6. Court Martial's only if bush testifies

otherwise, why should they pay for bush? Sick of this.