JTF2 command 'encouraged' war crimes, soldier alleges

Click on the title to read this CBC story.

My opinion is that this guy probably shouldn't be in the JTF. Of course their early policy of strength and muslcle over intelligenct thought may be backfiring. I'm assuming they have corrected it by now.

Now while my previous para contends that we need smarter JTF soldiers, not just strong brickheads, almost seems to counter my argument that this guy shouldn't be in the JTF. But that is not my point. He obviously doesn't fit in and is trying to drag down the system with him. Just what did he expect when he tried out for the JTF? That he would drive a big truck around the desert delivering goodies to the kids. And this story is over 4 years old! He is probably some wide eyed young Arty schuck that could do over 50 pushups in a minute and was granted entry. Of course it is not that easy, JTF trainees have many tests and stages to gain entry into our most secret special forces. But they are a secretive bunch, and probably rightly so. He should have known that he was getting invloved in a very dirty portion of warfare.
I tend to agree with some of the posters of this story... that he didn't bring this up until after he was facing discipline for something else. You and I know that innocent civilians get killed in war, and his claims that actual enemy combatants were killed somehow incorrectly is rubbish.

Our normal troops have it hard enough, and the majority of them I talked to share the same opinion as me re the Afghanis. Let them blow them selves to smithereens. This argument that we have to stop them over there instead of over here is crap.

If the US/NATO intelligence gathering folks bring forth such detailed info as to where a particular Taliban/Al Queda leader may be on a certain night, and that info is taken at face value and a air strike is ordered on that particular mud hut in the middle of the desert, whether in Afghanistan or Pakistan, than I'm sure the same arguement can be made to just leave this country; and when these operatives discovery a major threat to anyone, launch an airstrike.

Now I know that seems I have some faith in these operatives passing on pertinent info higher for action, but that is not what I mean. For every successful intelligence driven mission, whether it be by special forces or an airstrike, there are countless other missions that attack either empty buildings in an area, or buildings full of normal folk.

Well it's late again.. so laters,,