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Title: A Disgrace
Review: I am not sure what is more disgraceful: the soldier's behavior at Abu Ghraib or Rory Kennedy's attempts to rationalize and frame their actions. They knew the law as all soldiers do. The Law of Land Warfare and basic Geneva are taught to every soldier in Basic Training. MPs receive even more training in the subject. I am tired of hearing excuses for their abuses and I am not exactly sure what Kennedy wants to achieve by putting the soldiers on camera. In doing so, they look like the victims of "policy" rather than the prisoners (who largely remain nameless and faceless).A far better film is the recently released "The Prisoner or: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair" which tells the story of man wrongly sent to Abu Ghraib and that of his guards (who knew right from wrong).Kennedy would be well served to go to Iraq to see the day to day stresses that soldiers face and how the majority correctly and morally deal with those stresses.The Prisoner or: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair
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