as if there weren't problems enough in Iraq...

Eight Marine reservists under investigation for mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners-of-war

I haven't blogged much about the Iraq situation, mostly because I would need a whole separate blog to chronicle the daily slaughter of soldiers, the gross negligence of those in charge in sending reservists to do a job they aren't trained to do, and a whole host of other problems, not the least of which is Rumsfeld.

so it turns out that the reservists who are assigned to the POW camps got 1/2 hour of training on the Geneva Convention.

wow. Its scary to think that I probably know more about the Geneva Convention that these poor kids who have been recklessly thrown into a situation they haven't been trained for.

no wonder things are going so poorly for our troops.

I still can't fathom why it is that we are sending our 'weekend warriors' to fight this long, drawn out affair on foreign soil. I'm sure the morale factor is at an all-time low, and that is probably one reason why we don't have any good news coming out of Iraq. These guys signed up for one weekend a month, not a full year of being subjected to daily ambushes.

I feel awful for their families as well.

we should seriously consider pulling our troops out as soon as possible. even if we can't pull them out right away, there should at least be a reasonable rotation -- like one month on/one month off.

but it looks more like we are sending these poor kids to die so that Haliburton can make a ton of money from oil -- money that won't go to the Iraqi people, but back into the hands of Dick Cheney.

Congress needs to step in...else the situation continue to deteriorate at the hands of an ill qualified president (dare I say illegitimate) who has absolutely no exit plan, let alone an effective war plan, and even more of our troops die needlessly for the sake of oil money.