Just when you thought our international image had reached bottom:
The Army is investigating complaints that soldiers posted photographs of Iraqi corpses on an Internet site in exchange for access to pornographic images on the site, officials said Tuesday.
Seems like a fair trade. Snuff for muff. However, Muslims are predictably appalled:
An Islamic civil rights group said it wrote to Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld objecting to the practice, which it said may violate international laws of war, and urging the Pentagon to bring it to an end.
“This disgusting trade in human misery is an insult to all those who have served in our nation’s military,” Arsalan Iftikhar, legal director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said in his letter to Rumsfeld.
Apparently, the Army is looking into it but has already determined that no felonies were committed.
Another Army spokesman, Paul Boyce, said later that the preliminary criminal inquiry determined, based on available evidence, that felony charges could not be pursued. But the matter, including the possibility of disciplinary action, was being handled in coordination with other military services, he said.
Right. There is a possibility of disciplinary action for trading:
..photos depict(ing) dismembered Iraqi corpses and body parts. Some also were submitted by soldiers in Afghanistan.
Why don’t we just give our soldiers free porn? Or, on a more serious note, why don’t we train them to use their friggin’ heads? Why do so many in our armed forces have so precious little respect for their enemy? And, lastly, what kind of fucking person trades photos of dismembered people for pornography?
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Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly.
He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
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