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To: Dale Baker who wrote (179173)	1/12/2012 6:53:02 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 542139

Whenever you have as many young people in an organization as we have in the military, some of them will make mistakes. Those mistakes are obviously wrong, but it's not really surprising that there will be these kinds of episodes. I am not sure who should really take responsibility. It's pretty clear our policy is not to urinate on soldiers from other countries- at least now. With Abu Ghraib the problem appeared to be somewhat institutional- this incident appears to be a few folks going rogue. If you look at agency law- you really aren't responsible for your employees when they go criminal, and commit acts you have actually trained them NOT to commit. These men are responsible for tarnishing the honor of their services- but the leaders, political and military, are not encouraging this type of behavior and are, in fact, totally against acts like these.