Did anyone watch 60 minutes tonight about how GI's mistreat the enemy?

[kpgclark]

I am really appalled that 60 minutes aired a story tonight. They showed pictures of how American soldiers mistreated and humiliated Iraqi prisoners. Now don't get me wrong, the GI's were absolutely wrong to humiliate the prisoners and they should be disciplined but that's not the point. (for example the pictures showed naked prisoners forced to assume sexual positions with other naked prisoners and there was an American soldier in the picture smiling with a thumbs up) I feel like the enemy will use these photos to incite more hatred toward Americans. I don't think they should have aired that story at all. How can that benefit our political position?

 

[kpgclark]

And now I just saw a news promo for our local news showing one of the photos saying how people are questioning how we are treating POW's.

 

[Dan Murphy]

Freedom of speech gets clouded at times. At times, it does aide and abet the enemy.

 

[jvas]

Yeah.....doesn't quite beat dragging the dead bodies of G.I.'s
down the streets of Iraq does it?
Sometimes the media has their head up their......A**

 

[GeorgeG]

The media will always focus on a few such acts and ignore all the acts of kindness, of which I understand there are many. War is ugly, and that does not excuse misconduct, but I'm sure the enemy has a lot more to be ashamed of than our troops do.

 

[kpgclark]

I'm sure they have a lot more to be ashamed for but they'll never show it on TV like they will the images put out there by 60 minutes and the media here in the states. I'm sure they will run those photos a million times to show how evil we are.