Poor Leadership is Responsible for Iraqi Prisoner Atrocities

Donald H. McGannon once quoted that "Leadership is action, not position". The author of a recently published Associated Press article titled "Troops Reprimanded for Abuse", sited training as the reason for the abuse of prisoner in Iraq. I don't believe training should be solely blamed as the cause for these atrocities. I believe that poor Leadership is the cause for the behavior US soldiers demonstrated against Iraqi prisoners. As a recently retire Military Policeman from …

…my point by the facts of poor leadership as sited in the General Taguba report. I hope the facts I have presented will convince you that Leadership, not training is to blame for the atrocities committed at the prison. Ironically, President Eisenhower best summarized these hainess actions in 1958 with his quote "Any man who seeks to deny equality among all his brothers betrays the spirit of the free and invites the mockery of the tyrant."