Is there not something very wrong here, if these attitude are still so prevalent?
Onésimo Alvarez-Moro
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Well over a third of US combat troops deployed in Iraq condone torture to obtain information from insurgents and nearly one in 10 acknowledge mistreating civilians, a survey has found.
The study by an army mental health advisory team also found continuing problems with morale and said acute mental health issues were more prevalent among troops with extended tours or on their second and third deployment to Iraq.
"They looked under every rock, and what they found was not always easy to look at," said Ward Casscells, the Pentagon's health affairs chief.
For the first time ever, soldiers and marines in combat units were questioned on issues of character and ethics, and their answers suggested hardened attitudes toward civilians among front line troops:
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