Reply #24: You keep wanting to justify our abuse with what they have done

[Bandit]

We used to be better than that. You are just trying to excuse our behavior and that is exactly what I'm talking about. As long as the troops keep hiding or excusing such behavior they get no respect from me. It is a simple case of CYA and I'm not buying it. The soldiers en masse have to stand up and say no more of this shit. Not just by voice but by action. When I was in the service and a few bad apples gave my unit a black eye it was dealt with immediately by the rest of us. This is not happening that I've been made aware of and by not addressing these things the bad reports just go on and on. I'm not buying your using 9-11 as an excuse for us to rampage through the entire mid-east either. 9-11 was an act of murder not war. It was a criminal act that needs prosecution for but no country was involved so why war? It is criminal misuse of our military and they are behaving like criminals because of it.