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Originally Posted by smooth
Funny you should mention that, since cuddling is exactly what they are doing while smiling into the camera.
I expect the soldiers to guard the prisoners and sit on the edge of the "truck" like the rest of the guys are doing--not posing for snapshots.
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*sigh*...
They were in enemy/unfriendly territory, with potentially dangerous prisoners just waiting for an oppertunity to escape, and you expect them to sit on the edge of a truck???
It's rather obvious to me that some people here, you included, *want* this to be abuse. I bet that if the navy rules it's not abuse after all, these people will be the first to claim it's a cover-up.
If I re-read your posted quote, the main problem is that there were pictures at all, which is illegal. There isn't anyone that says these people were abused at all; the most you'll hear is that it raises questions about the treatment; this might be aimed at the taking of photographs, not the so-called "abuse".
Now, IF there was indeed abuse, the guilty should be, and will be punished. But if the abuse consists of people sitting on prisoners and scaring or humiliating them, I don't think it's really that bad. Again, I'd like to draw your attention to the treatment of innocent civilians by some of the insurgents. In fact, while we're at it, I suggest you investigate the abuse of normal prisoners all over the middle-east, something nobody but human rights groups seems to care about.