WTF? The Marine officer who commanded the battalion involved in the Haditha killings last November did not consider the deaths of 24 Iraqis, many of them women and children, unusual and did not initiate an inquiry, according to a sworn statement he gave to military investigators in March. “I thought it was very sad, very […]
Salon has a very interesting article today that might give us a glimpse into the next big debate over Iraq: Congress has demanded that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld hand over a raft of documents to Congress that could substantiate allegations that U.S. forces have tried to break terror suspects by kidnapping and mistreating their […]
After weeks of hearing Hitler comparisons and over exaggerated arguments about the treatment, rather it be good or bad, of Guantanamo detainees, we now hear about an official military investigation uncovering some mistreatment of the prisoners. Now while this report does not give gut wrenching accounts of horrid torture practices like we heard was common […]