Dr_Evil_Mouse Posted June 2, 2006 Report Share Posted June 2, 2006 Dog handler at Abu Ghraib sentenced to hard labour for abuse An army dog handler who allowed his Belgian shephard to bark within inches of an Iraqi prisoner's face at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison was sentenced Friday to 90 days of hard labour.An army dog handler who allowed his Belgian shephard to bark within inches of an Iraqi prisoner's face at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison was sentenced Friday to 90 days of hard labour.A military judge also reduced the rank of army Sgt. Santos Cardona to specialist after he was found guilty of dereliction of duty and aggravated assault.The court ordered him to forfeit $600 a month in pay for 12 months.Cardona is the 11th soldier convicted of crimes stemming from the abuse of inmates at the prison outside Baghdad in late 2003 and early 2004.He was found guilty of allowing his dog to bark in the face of a prisoner who was kneeling. Another soldier had requested the action.Cardona was cleared on seven other counts, including accusations of letting his dog bite a detainee and conspiring with another dog handler to frighten prisoners.It is not clear where Cardona will serve the sentence or what the hard labour entails.Prosecutor Maj. Matthew Miller had recommended 12 months confinement and a bad conduct discharge.This shit still sends a chill down my spine. Banality of evil indeed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StoneMtn Posted June 2, 2006 Report Share Posted June 2, 2006 Any Colonels or Generals on the chopping block for this yet?What? No? I'm shocked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamilton Posted June 2, 2006 Report Share Posted June 2, 2006 Any Colonels or Generals on the chopping block for this yet?What? No? I'm shocked.Interesting, isn't it? At Nuremberg, it was only those in charge who had to stand trial. Now, it's individual soldiers who are being found guilty of crimes. I realize of course that intimidating a prisoner is much different than starting a war and trying to exterminate an entire race, but it's seems pretty clear where this type of prosecution is heading. I bet we'll see the same thing whenever the US gets around to trying the Marines who murdered those villagers, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biggest Fan Posted June 3, 2006 Report Share Posted June 3, 2006 I've got a job in which if there was a picture taken 'in a moment of time', the whole world would be hating me also. Not to excuse their behavior but ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StoneMtn Posted June 3, 2006 Report Share Posted June 3, 2006 BF, aren't you a school teacher? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biggest Fan Posted June 4, 2006 Report Share Posted June 4, 2006 The past few years I've been working in some of the most impoverished inner-cities in S/E Pennsylvania. From the outside looking in, it can look a 'little bad' at times. *I do not want to pass judgement on the troops. That is the last place on earth I would want to be (Iraq). I could not imagine the pressure the soldiers are under at Abu Ghraib. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmoothedShredder Posted June 7, 2006 Report Share Posted June 7, 2006 I do not want to pass judgement on the troops. That is the last place on earth I would want to be (Iraq). I could not imagine the pressure the soldiers are under at Abu Ghraib. It still doesn't give them the right to unilaterally torture prisoners. And besides... if the US is trying to bring Democracy to Iraq, they should atleast try to practice what they preach and make the best efforts to protect the rights of all the citizens to the best of their abilities... espcially the marginalized... the prisioners, the minorities, the mentally and physically handicapped... they're not doing that... in fact they seem to be achieving quite the opposite... creating more prisoners, defining more minorities, and hurting more people making them physically and emotionally handicapped.What the US is doing is wrong. If indeed they are winning the war (which I don't believe they are, rather it's more of a quagmire right now)... they could afford to make the concessions to treat captured prisoners with the minimal amount of humanity so elloqunetly outlined within the Geeneva convention... to me what they are clearly saying is that they are decreasing the value on the sanctity of life, and that is very sad, cause in it's place has been inserted the sanctity of oil.It's time you stopped working/killing for your Car America. You've been put on notice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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