is ten yrs to harsh for the guard of abu garhib

Originally posted by sarettah@Jan 16 2005, 04:01 PM
The rule of thumb in the military when it comes to "legal vs illegal orders" is to obey the order first and then question it... It is patently obvious that they "small group" at the prison was following orders.. Several of them questioned the orders and were basically told to shut up..

The commanding officer is ultimately responsible for all actions of any personnel within their command.

Thus the CO should go down, all officers involved should go down, and any of the enlisted personnel who did not question what were obviously illegal orders should perhaps serve some punishment.

That is not what will happen, but it what should happen.

That is a very good point. But many war criminals in the past have used the "following orders" argument and we have scoffed. Because they were on the other side.