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Thank you for saying that, Tom.
Also, take into accout that these are soldiers who have been away from their homes and families for probably longer than a year. This is an unpopular war with a lot of soldiers. Most of them do not want to be there, and see no reason for us to be there.
Hell, there was a unit that refused a mission. And before anyone says that they refused it because they're National Guard, I'll tell you why they refused to move. It was a transportation unit that was told to move contaminated fuel, in UN-ARMORED vehicles, through an area that was being heavily attacked by insurgents.
You wanna talk about hazing?
"Hey, take this rolling bomb through that hail of bullets and rockets coming at you. By the way, we aren't going to give you any armor at all."
What would your answer be?
The simple fact is that the prison situation happened because:
1. The soldiers don't want to be there
2. Most of the soldiers don't believe in the war
3. The soldiers don't care about the prisoners
Why don't they care? Because their prisoners are the ones who were trying to kill them the week before.
I am an ex soldier, my Mother is in the US Air Force Reserves and her unit has been activated for the past 2 years for this crap, and one of my buddies just returned from a tour in Iraq. For those of you that saw it, he was in the battle covered on CNN last year. His Humvee was destroyed and 2 of his buddies killed that day. Will he go back? "Hell no!"