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 the United States Air Force, I find the actions of a few Army Soldiers to be an abomination against everything I spent twenty-two years protecting. …