[Ed Note: FOB Tacoma has been following this story for months.]
From FOB Tacoma Posted By Matt M -
The German newsmagazine Der Spiegel published three disquieting photos of Afghan corpses on its website today, two of which show soldiers from Joint Base Lewis-McChord posing with a bloodied dead body.
The photos are published here. They were altered at some point to obscure the heads of the Afghan men. Still, they are disturbing to view.
The photos were released the same week that one of the pictured soldiers, Spc. Jeremy Morlock, is scheduled to go to a court martial at Lewis-McChord on charges including premeditated murder of noncombatants while deployed with his Stryker Brigade in Afghanistan early last year. He apparently has struck a plea deal. The News Tribune will cover the proceedings.
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From Big Peace by Peter Schweizer -
The horrific photos of US soldiers posing with dead Afghan civilians should be rightfully condemned. That is not the sort of battlefield conduct we should condone by America’s finest. But what about the larger questions? What are the larger questions?
#1: During the Bush years when the Abu Ghraib scandal erupted with photos of American soldiers posing with humiliated prisoners, we were told that this was a reflection of George W. Bush. Harry Smith on CBS claimed that Abu Ghraib was a logical consequence of Bush’s policies. His interrogation techniques caused the problem. In other words, Bush was the root cause.
So with these new horrific photos now coming out, is Obama the root cause? Somehow I doubt that we will not be hearing the argument by the MSM.
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