A Prediction?

Funny how certain things happen simultaneously in Britain and the USA.

Take for instance the recent court martials of a few privates and non-commissioned officers from the US and British army. The first lot tried for torture at Abu Ghraib. our lot for similar shenanigans during Operation Ali Baba in Basra. (How PC was that!)

In both cases the line of defence used is that the defendants were only following orders. Nonetheless in the US trial Sgt. Garner was found guilty, and sentenced to ten years. The defendants in the Britiah trial will equally be found guilty. They too will receive sentences of varying severity.

In the USA Garner et al look as if they have been hung out to dry! You don't do anything in the army unless someone orders you to. The British military are a bit more noble than their American counterparts. They have already written the escape clause for those who will be convicted.

What will spring them are the 'unprecedented' comments made by General Sir Mike Jackson Chief of the General Staff on the first day of the trial regards the defendents' conduct, and the photographs illustrating the alleged charges laid against them. These are 'comments prejudicial...' if ever I have heard any!

On hearing in a year or two that Cpl. Daniel Kenyon and others have won their appeal on the grounds of various breaches to their human rights. General Sir Mike will no doubt say 'Oh dear.' in that very British way of his.

A soldiers' soldier.