Not posting this to get flamed, so please don't. If you will look at how this "war" was prosecuted, by whom, and for what reasons..this was inevitable. The standard was set for gross mistreatment of detainees at Guantanamo. It has come out that Rumsfeld, (he admitted it ), authorized the water torture for one inmate. This is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg. The media could and should show all the positive things we have done...but ask yourself how much of civic action and Medcaps you saw on US TV and in the papers from 1965 - 1972. Very little if any. How much coverage was given to the systematic slaughter of the Vietnam citizenry in Vietnam from 1975 - to now ?...Why is "Platoon" rated "the most important movie made about Vietnam" and on and on it goes...all we can do is pray, let our service men and women know we support and love them no matter how the political winds may blow, and go on....Just my IMHO.
Larry
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