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Thread #44413   Message #654748
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
21-Feb-02 - 01:22 PM
Thread Name: BS: WHAT DID THE BRITISH PARACHUTE REGIMENT
Subject: RE: BS: WHAT DID THE BRITISH PARACHUTE REGIMENT
So improved technology means that things are more likely to go wrong, Teribus? Likely enough, that seems to be how it works with our computers.

I'm all for waiting until things have been properly investigated before coming to conclusions. But to be trusted investigations have to be genuinely and demonstrably independent, not carried out by the colleagues of the people involved, which is the almost universal procedure so far.

As I've pointed out, there's as much room for scapegoating as for whitewashing in those curcumstances. There was an Australian film called "Breaker Morant", set in the Boer War, which was about precisely that .

Roll on an impartial international war crimes tribunal.