How do you feel about hearings that Obama is starting over prisoner interagation
By lawana_f
@lawana_f (326)
United States
April 21, 2009 2:08pm CST
I know that the military may or may not have treated prisoners as they should have and that there was abuse, but as the orders for this may have come from the highest offices in the nation should the military men and women that actually did as ordered be the ones punished for it? I am not sure exactly how I feel about this topic. I know there was injustice in many cases, but did the ends justify the means? Who should take the ultimate blame for this, keeping in mind we train our soldiers to follwo orders without question?
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I think the military who control the prisoners, should have responsibility about this.They should treat prisoners under the human right rules.@lawana_f (326)
• United States
27 Jul 09
I agree that the military is responsible, but the soldiers that are following orders should not be held responsible.
Our military men and women are trained from the beginning to follow orders, and can get into major touble for not following orders, and there are only certain ways that they can even complain about the orders they receive, and it has to go through channels. The average personal in these places are privates that give them little to no way to oppose the orders they are given.
I believe that the officers that are giving the orders are tho ones that can contest the orders they are being given and they are tho one to be held responsible. I understand some military matters, but we the public if we do not know several military personal do not have the intire picture and we do not have the right to judge for that reason.
I am not sure that a new president in the first 100 days in office has the full picture and should get all of the information from all of the parties involved (espically the one that we the publlic do not know about) before he makes decissions that are going to affect peoples lives. Lives have been ruined that did not need to be ruined. The lifes that have been ruined are the soldiers that were only following orders and the ones responsible were never even brought to light.
@ladym33 (10979)
• United States
19 May 09
I think you have a good point, they were doing as ordered. If they did not do what they were told to do, then they would be in trouble. They are very much trained to follow orders, and they are also taught they are not there to think they are taught to follow orders. I think their responsibility should be minimal.
