What a bunch of Crybabies.
Saw the documentary yesterday and boy was I annoyed. All of them nearly cried about their situation as if they were the victims of the whole thing.
"I was young, and stupid. And I did it because i was in love, with the wrong guy. It's all his fault."
"I did it to show the truth, that's why you see me *cough* fake *cough* smiling on every picture, with the thumb-up."
"What was i supposed to do? Disobey orders? They would've thrown me into prison, so i helped building that pyramid."
Seriously, i was just disgusted by the whole thing. They were all Hypocrites. Nearly crying about the whole thing, as if they were the victims.
If you have no back-bone, and you don't want to take responsibilities for your actions, why the *beep* did you join the military? You're given a rifle, something that can end lives. The age is also no excuse, so don't start on that. Seriously if you watch them, how they react, some of them are like "I forced them to masturbate, so what?!"
What they did, they did for their amusement, no reason behind the whole thing. It didn't save lives, it didn't help find out information.
To me, it seems the worst thing in the American military is to disobey orders. This just shows you how *beep* the whole chain of command thing is.
In Germany we have rules that protect you from such things. If someone with a higher rank tells you to beat or shoot someone, and you see no reason for it or it is against your moral, you can not only disobey the order, but strip him off his command. Which is something my brother nearly did when his commander shat bricks instead of going out and drag the wounded/killed soldiers inside.