Despite all the ‘heroism’ cast upon Darby, people would do well to take his testimony with a grain of salt.  If you read his exclusive GQ interview (what’s up with that?), he goes into great detail how much he hated the individuals in the pictures (especially Charles Graner) and is a bit presumptious to say authoritatively that the abuse was unknown to ‘the command’ and had no part in it.  This leads me to believe that A) he may originally intended get back at these MP’s by causing them trouble (not knowing they would find out it was he who conveniently and secretly dropped off these ‘discovered’ pictures, and B) despite being a common MP at the prison, who only knew his own company commander as far as officers go (if that), would have us believe he knew the inner workings of the Top Secret Intelligence officers, soldiers, and civilians enough to say there’s nothing more to it (which helps him to try to salvage the damage he has done to himself for ‘whistleblowing’).  However, to his credit I will say he changed his tune a little bit since then (as seen in this interview), where he takes on a more ignorant approach to the idea of the abuse coming from above and elsewhere.

Here is the GQ interview

http://men.style.com/gq/features/landing?id=content_4785

...something to think for you all to think about before being yet another to throw the ‘bad apples’ under the bus and pretend nothing else was really going on…

Joe Darby is one heck of civilized person living among savages and barbarians.

Btw, where are these “we support our troop” lot?
What about those screaming “christian value” bunch?

I hope the Local VFW Commander in Cumberland Maryland has had enough time to re-think his position when he said, ” Do you put the enemy above your buddies? I wouldn’t.

I suggest that he examine the possibility that in this case, “the enemy” are any acts that demean the basic belief in America that every human being under any circumstance has the right to Due Process and that the erosion of this belief made things like the Holocaust, Gulags, and the killing fields of Cambodia possible Most if not all acts of evil come only after a rejection of the principle of Due Process. No Despot ever rose who did not think he had the right to disregard Human rights to Due Process.

Further the Commander said, “He (Darby)put our troops in harms way”.

Once again the Commander fails to grasp exactly who perpetrated this act that, I too believe has put our troops in harms way. It wasn’t Darby, it was those who participated in the acts of inhumane treatment of prisoners. By failing to observe Due Process, those individuals are responsible.

The Commander went went on to describe Darby as a border line traitor.

Sir, I ask you to reconsider your position. Anyone who puts their personal beliefs or fieldty to individuals above that which we as military men swore to protect, namely the flag and what it stands for. The Flag represents not individuals, but an oath to equality and justice for all through Due Process. What Darby did, he did for us all, and ironically that means he did it for you too.

Please think this through.

Darby’s belief that there is a right and wrong and that it matters is sooo quaint.  Doesn’t he know that the #1 moral rule in the US today, positively reinforced by the cuddly Peyton Manning in those cute commercials, is: support your team, no matter what.  Priceless.