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Originally Posted by smooth
I classify jumping and lounging on prisoners as "questionable" at least, "bad" usually.
Pointing loaded weapons at someone's face while snapping a digi of his scared look for the buddies is also "questionable" behavior.
EDIT: if you read the blurb posted before the pictures, did you notice the Navy was investigating the conduct?
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You weren't there, so don't know whether there was any abuse. I could think of many possible scenarios where the scenes you see would be normal. A struggling man, for example, where one of his captors sits on him to restrain him. It's not like he's kicking him in the head, or torturing him.
Pointing loaded weapons at a face isn't nice, but if these are violent insurgents, I'd say it's a pretty good way of keeping them in check.
finally, the navy investigating the conduct doesn't say anything at all. Of course they'll investigate, but mostly to find out who took the pictures, because that'd be illegal. You know, international law and all - not putting POWs in the media. If the media makes a fuss about this as they did with the other abuse pictures, then yes, there will be consequences for the soldiers involved. But *only* because the media jumps on it, not because they're really guilty of anything serious.
Someone should be kicked very hard for taking these pictures. And someone else should be kicked even harder for putting them on the internet. Y'see, no matter what the story really is, extremists will jump on this. They will claim that it's abuse anyway, and will use it in their anti-US stories. Of course, it doesn't compare to pictures of civilians being decapitated by them, but that doesn't matter to these people.