How far we've fallen....

The brutality and war crimes being perpetrated by the U.S. military are reminiscent of Stalin's USSR, or Hitler's Germany. Anyone involved in these incidents needs to be punished, swiftly and very severely. And that includes command personnel.

One of the worst passages from the above link:

The worst incident that I was privy to was in late November. The prisoners were protesting nightly because of their living conditions. They protested the cold, the lack of clothing, the rotting food that was causing dysentery. And they wanted cigarettes. They tore up pieces of clothing, made banners and signs. One demonstration became intense and got unruly. The prisoners picked up stones, pieces of wood, and threw them at the guards. One of my buddies got hit in the face. He got a bloody nose. But he wasn’t hurt. The guards asked permission to use lethal force. They got it. They opened fire on the prisoners with the machine guns. They shot twelve and killed three. I know because I talked to the guy who did the killing. He showed me these grisly photographs, and he bragged about the results. “Oh,” he said, “I shot this guy in the face. See, his head is split open.” He talked like the Terminator. He shot this guy in the groin, he took three days to bleed to death.” I was shocked. This was the nicest guy you would ever want to meet. He was a family man, a really courteous guy, a devout Christian. I was stunned and said to him: “You shot an unarmed man behind barbed wire for throwing a stone.” He said, “Well, I knelt down. I said a prayer, stood up and gunned them all down.” There was a complete disconnect between what he had done and his own morality.

Come on, you unAmerican thugs posing as soldiers. The U.S. is better than this!!

Addendum: The Pentagon seems to be moving forward with plans to do away with Geneva Convention anti-torture provisions in the Army field manual. Link 1, link 2, link 3.