this news article is about a month old...but its the first I heard about this "punishment" given to the military personnel.
The assumption that pledging a college Fraternity is a PUNISHMENT.....and a "punishment" that equals the "hazing" that went on in the Iraqi prisons at that.
I really cannot even think of the words to express how retarded that is...
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Iraq Prison Bosses Sentenced to Pledge Fraternity
(2004-05-04)
Seven U.S. military personnel who held supervisor positions at the now-infamous Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq have been reprimanded by their commanding officer and sentenced to "pledge a college fraternity" for their role in mismanaging the prison.
"Although these supervisors didn't commit any crimes, they should have known that their subordinates were hazing the prisoners," said an unnamed Pentagon spokesman. "The punishment--one semester as a college fraternity pledge--will allow them to experience the kind of humiliation which some Iraqi prisoners endured."
Although most fraternities have eliminated hazing from their pledge programs, the Pentagon has located one primitive Greek society, Delta Upsilon Mu, which still subjects pledges to ridicule, stripping and blind-folded simulations of life-threatening situations.
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F*%ing stupid!
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