Petraeus `concerned' by Ethics Report

[sabra]

Source: AP

NEW YORK (AP) - The top U.S. commander in Iraq said Monday he was "greatly concerned" by a recent survey that concluded many combat troops in Iraq would not report a member of their unit for killing or wounding an innocent civilian.

Speaking to the annual meeting of The Associated Press, Gen. David Petraeus called for a "redoubling of our education efforts" to identify potential abuses among soldiers and anticipate problems related to combat stress.

"We can never sink to the level of the enemy," Petraeus said by video link from Baghdad. "We have done that at times in theater and it has cost us enormously" _ referring specifically to the torture and humiliation of prisoners at the Abu Ghraib facility west of Baghdad.

Petraeus said he was drafting a memo that would closer examine issues of battlefield ethics and ways pre-empt possible problems, adding that he was "greatly concerned by the results" of a Pentagon report last week by a special mental health advisory team assessing forces serving in Iraq.

"So the first step is that we've got ... make sure that folks remember that that's a foundation for our moral compass ... anything we do that violates that is done at considerable peril," he said.

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[dchill]

1. "We can never sink to the level of the enemy,"

Too late, Dave.

[youngdem]

5. Indeed.

Far too late, for the very moment we attacked a country that NEVER attacked us and NEVER was going to , we became terrorists as well.

Abu Ghraib (sp?), Guantanamo Bay, suspension of habeas corpus, bombing inside of Iraqi cities after Bush announced 'major combat operations are over' - all of these are symptoms of the disease afflicting every aggressor on the wrong side of an unprovoked war, for they are the actions of a desperate army trying to force injustice on the occupied - something that will never last forever.

[maddezmom]

2. concerned?

Sounds like the responses to Abu Ghraib, etc :eyes:

[hvn_nbr_2]

4. Yeah. His main concern is that the report saw the light of day. nt

[Solly Mack]

3. sigh

[xchrom]

6. petraeus -- you are an unimaginative tool.

and represent a true degradation in the best of what comes to the pentagon.