WYOU : Soldiers Tell Their Side


"Three soldiers [Lisa Girman, Scott MacKenzie and Tim Canjar ]from the 320th military Police Battalion out of Ashley are home from their ordeal now. They still claim they`re innocent and want to clear their names. They came to us because they want you to hear their story."

If this is true, the Lisa Girman story is even stranger than I suspected.

I blogged this story that was virtually ignored by the US press but largely reported in the Asian and European press, especially UK. I was surpised by this and had concluded that the US press was shying away from bad news from Iraq that may be construed as not "supporting the troops".

But this news, on a local radio station, turns the story on its head. Instead of individual soldiers abusing Iraqi prisoners, this story is about military commanders abusing soldiers. What is particularly chilling is the seemingly arbitrary treatment by "military justice". (If this is true, the lawyers who are arguing the case for the Guantanamo prisoners could find themselves in real trouble.)