{"id":22654,"date":"2011-03-21T12:06:22","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T16:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=22654"},"modified":"2011-03-21T12:06:22","modified_gmt":"2011-03-21T16:06:22","slug":"der-speigel-manufactures-outrage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22654","title":{"rendered":"Der Speigel manufactures outrage"},"content":{"rendered":"

I saw the Der Speigel article earlier this weekend, the one that leads Drudge right now in the form of an official Army apology on BBC News<\/a>. It included some pictures of the soldiers who are charged with murder of two Afghan civilians, Der Speigel says the pictures are worse than the Abu Ghraib photos.<\/p>\n

If possible, these pictures are even a little more disgusting than the ones from Abu Ghraib. Those photos demonstrated a casual disdain for the dignity of the captive Iraqis; the FOB Ramrod Kill Team\u2019s photos, on the other hand, show a casual disdain for the very lives of the Afghans. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As bad as the pictures of the buffoonery of the participants in both incidents are, there is nothing here to be outraged about since the pictures in question are currently being used as evidence in a court martial – just like the goofuses in Abu Ghraib were being investigated and tried as the photos of that incident were released. The BBC reports on the Army’s reaction to Der Speigel’s photos;<\/p>\n

The US Army said these photographs depict “actions repugnant to us as human beings and contrary to the standards and values of the United States Army”.<\/p>\n

“The actions portrayed in these photographs remain under investigation and are now the subject of ongoing US court-martial proceedings, in which the accused are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty,” it added.<\/p>\n

Soldiers who are convicted will be held accountable as appropriate, the army says.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, this the German publication’s attempt to smear all members of the US Army as well as their mission in the middle east. Actually the actions of a few soldiers who knew at the time that they were acting contrary to Army regulations – which is why they tried to cover it up. The only “casual disregard” was on the part of a few soldiers, not an entire unit. No matter how hard Der Speigel fans the flames of false outrage.<\/p>\n

Of course, the perpetually outraged denizens of the middle east will use it as another excuse to be…well….perpetually outraged, but they’re still angry about the Koran that was never flushed down a toilet at Guantanamo. So they don’t need another excuse. It’s just Der Speigel doing what they do best – sensationalism. They claim that they have 4,000 photos from the electronic media collected from the nine soldiers – and this is probably the worst they have, so it’s more intellectual brain farts and pants-wetting from the Euro-wienies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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