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To: John Carragher who wrote (20291)	6/4/2006 10:14:41 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541780

It's not just 12 men. There are many incidents under review- and if there are no leakers, we won't find out about them. But we know about more than just 12 men. Judging from other wars misconduct is a part of war. I do not believe the US as ever fought a war that didn't have incidents in it where our soldiers went off that rails- I think it's a natural part of war. It's a regrettable part, and it's a part to work against, but you cannot make war "humane"- that's why you should be very sure that whatever your are fighting "for" will justify the inhumanity that is sure to occur. That, imo, is the problem with Iraq- there just wasn't a good enough reason to be there (after the trumped up reasons were shows to be false) to justify the negatives of war (cost, brutality, dead US soldiers, etc).

To: John Carragher who wrote (20291)	6/4/2006 10:39:52 AM
From: Suma	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541780

I admire your moderate approach to the New York Times article. However whenever a story such as this one arises compare it to the time when a black person raped or murdered a white person... In those days ALL blacks were stereotyped as rapists and people were afraid. It doesn't take more than a few bad apples to bring down a whole barrel of good ones... Today on NPR Media a persuasive argument was given for having more embedded journalists with the troops. The thinking was that fewer incidents like this would occur when their were pictures being taken.. Whereas in Viet Nam there were 150 journalists today in Iraq there are maybe 30...