Poor_Leadership

Poor Leadership 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. These atrocious deeds conducted by a few people have renewed the hatred toward American citizens and our military. 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. Their actions have tarnished the reputation of every decent American trying to help the Iraqi people. This article sited Seven soldiers, six officers and one enlisted, who have received reprimands and been relieved of their duties for actions resulting from poor leadership. The article slanted the perception of the incident as the lack of training being the key in the actions taken by the guards. I believe training, leadership, received, actions, poor, against, soldiers, military, army, sited, prison, people, iraqi, failure, cause, believe, article, report, prisoners, general, atrocities, written, taguba, role, recently, prisons, prisoner, press, policeman, point, one, once, officers, lack, inadequate