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Originally posted by James
I talked to a retired military guy about this the other day . . .
What he was saying was this stuff was probably ordered. And in some ways may be business as usual.
He wasn't against it, he was just really incenced that pictures got out. He can't imagine how that would have happened.
But here is his logic: Prisoners need to be interrogated. We need to know their information. War is not a pleasant thing, its not a mental excercise.
Yes its not Official US policy to torture prisoners for information, but the information has to be gotten regardless. So alot of things happen unofficially.
He pointed out that it was the pictures that made everyone go nuts when in fact an investigation had been announced about this in January, but everyone ignored it.
So you have a situation where the CIA or Military Intellegence comes in and takes over interrogation, under cutting the One-Star General in charge.
As far as the role of the woman goes, she may very well have been used because she is female, as part of breaking the Iraqi's down through humiliation.
But, probably everyone will get nailed except for the intellegence operatives because no one will really be sure who they are lol.
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a co-worker said the same thing, but i don't view gang raping a woman falls under interrogation practices.