AceM2's Journal: Another example of the political insanity in Iraq

So I was just checking my email and saw this news story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080518/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

This kid is an idiot for doing what he did, but to me this is just insanity. On our side we accidentally kill civilians by the dozens, kick in their doors and search their houses at all hours of the day/night, and not to mention our presence attracting outside terrorists into the country. This is not even to speak of the horrible things they would do if you gave them a star of david, a christian bible, or something similar.

Now I could sit here and talk about the terrible things I've seen both sides do, but that's not my point. My point is of all the crazy things going on, you're going to ruin someone's career (and as a result, their life for the next couple years) over the shooting of a book on a range. Wow. There are so many more worse things going on in a WAR than disrespecting a religious text (which in my experience are often found in trash or abandoned in the streets).