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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (312639)	11/27/2006 3:52:21 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572729

"Our soldiers are the best and the finest that the world will ever see." Never said any different. "A few bad apples might spoil the entire bunch" That is the problem. It wasn't just some rogue troops with active imaginations. It was policy, approved by Rumsfeld and carried out by private contractors with some bleed over to troops who were led to believe they were in the chain of command. Now true, there were some troops who went off the rails on their own, the rape and murder of that 15 year old and her family comes to mind. But Abu Ghraib was something else. Now things have happened in the past, sometimes even with tacit acceptance at high levels. But it never was institutionalized, nor did it have overt support at a high level. Even then, it can get out of hand, just read about how the CIA went totally off the reservation during the 1960s and 1970s, resulting in Congress damn near killing the whole department by cutting off funding. Which is why they resorted to running heroin from Asia to the US...