US Soldiers Trade Iraqi Dead Photos for Porn (This can't be true, can it?)

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Originally Posted by sleepyjeff

Find me a police force of any city over 100,000 which has never mis-handled a single crime. They are there first and foremost to win a war....policing themselves, although important, is not nor should it be their primary concern.

Don't major cities usually have citizen review boards and other mechanisms to reduce episodes of police corruption? Do soldiers get a free pass on abhorent behavior because their job is difficult and unsavory? Or is it that they get a free pass because there are so many of them we just throw up our hands and say "soldiers will be soldiers"? Because there will always be the proverbial bad apples so we should never try to pluck them out as soon as they are identified? Or perhaps because if we ignore it, we can pretend it will go away?