The Prison Abuse Scandal: My Take

I have poked some fun at the MP's who are in the middle of the ringer, but now that an actual better picture of how the system broke down to that point... I will now make a bigger commentary on the whole deal

The Iraq war was a Cluster F***

show of hands for Anyone who didn't know this fact?

now, that we know their failure to plan ( thus planning to fail) was at the heart of the prisoner abuse scandal.

We took tons of Prisoners in the first Persian Gulf War, so LOGIC would dictate that taking over the whole country would definately mean alot more P.O.W and alot more prisoners in general.

this was a bad plan

soldiers were poorly disciplined ( look at the other ancilary charges on the MPs.. alot of violations of the code of military conduct)

they were not instructed how to be prison guards ( and you have people who are trained for that you didn't send to iraq)

for SOME reason these people felt intelligence officers ( not in their chain of command) and CONTRACTORS ( again even more not in their chain of command) could give them orders.

the enviroment was primed for stupid people who don't understand something very important........

THE NUREMBURG PRINCIPLE

does that get you out of service; NO
Does that get you out of following criminal orders; yes

going back to before that point in time, disobeying such orders rarely lead to disciplinary actions

WHY because the people on the ground knew that it was wrong.

and, they knew that some times in war, war crimes happen. you just want it to be rare.

The Prison abuse scandal in Iraq

Poor Planning, Poor Discipline, Poor Oversite: These things created a breeding ground for

Poorly trained: Poorly educated; MORONS to do stupid things