The treatment of the inmates at Abu Ghraib was horrible, both on Hussein’s watch and on our military’s (and thus ours).
To be honest, I think the blame game is stupid. The soldiers ought to get recognition for the harm they suffered, like, say purple hearts, solid treatment and support from our government on whose behalf they suffered, and nothing more. And that’s how it ought to be in general.
The institutional entities which did this to them no longer exist. If you win a war, your opponent may well not be around to pick up the pieces, so relying on taking it out of their hide is both kicking them while their down and terribly impractical. If you lose a war, you’re in no position to extract payment from the winners.
But it is pretty ridiculous to say “compensate the people who suffered under our watch but don’t compensate those who suffered under another’s”.
“No amount of money can truly compensate these brave men and women for the suffering that they went through at the hands of this very brutal regime and at the hands of Saddam Hussein,” White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan told reporters
Oh wow he really does have no soul. That Buffalo Beast list was right when it sentenced him to be locked in a room with a camera that spits cobra venom at him every time he speaks.
That is horrible.
The treatment of the inmates at Abu Ghraib was horrible, both on Hussein’s watch and on our military’s (and thus ours).
To be honest, I think the blame game is stupid. The soldiers ought to get recognition for the harm they suffered, like, say purple hearts, solid treatment and support from our government on whose behalf they suffered, and nothing more. And that’s how it ought to be in general.
The institutional entities which did this to them no longer exist. If you win a war, your opponent may well not be around to pick up the pieces, so relying on taking it out of their hide is both kicking them while their down and terribly impractical. If you lose a war, you’re in no position to extract payment from the winners.
But it is pretty ridiculous to say “compensate the people who suffered under our watch but don’t compensate those who suffered under another’s”.
War is full of absurdity.
I agree.
while *they’re* down. I hate it when I do that.
“No amount of money can truly compensate these brave men and women for the suffering that they went through at the hands of this very brutal regime and at the hands of Saddam Hussein,” White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan told reporters
Oh wow he really does have no soul. That Buffalo Beast list was right when it sentenced him to be locked in a room with a camera that spits cobra venom at him every time he speaks.