timewarrior2001

I think its all a storm in a teacup, just like the harry and nazi uniform story.

These guys go out to the gulf, they put their lives on the line (which is a damn site more than the rest of us do) They have been taught to kill, they expect to fight. Suddenly theyu have their hands on a group of people that perhapos only hours or even minutes ago were raining mortars and god only knows what else down on them and their mates.

What would you do?
Whilst making them pose for pics in daft gay poses may be humiliating its hardly devastating is it?
Being pictured bound and laid on the floor with a soldier crouching over you hardly constitutes brutality.
Being raised on a forklift truck however stupid it is is hardly torture.

Why is it that the media in this country gain such satisfaction from reporting these incidents and undermining the massive effort that the others have put in. Do they get some sick sense of importance by making headline world news showing of a bunch of young and reckless recruits misbehaving and claiming the whole british army should be ashamed. No sorry the papers should be ashamed for printing such things.
Yes its worrying that it goes on, but the pictures I saw today although not pretty, were, I consider, extremely far from torture.

The only picture I worried about was the squaddie surfing on the prisoner. But even then I dont think it adds up to anything that was more than insignificant. It was and stil is a war zone, people are bound to make errors of judgement and its easy for us to say I wouldnt do it, but we arent there.