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Originally Posted by Stealth Hunter
We did the latter, and the Geneva Convention could go to hell because shooting innocents should earn you and WOULD earn you execution under my command. That was my idea, and I stuck to it. They didn't know anything on what we asked them. They just said whatever we wanted to hear because they knew it would stop. They were useless privates who probably knew more about farming than the proper way to assemble their rifle.
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You mix two things up.
You say you shot dead Iraqis for having shot (I assume intentionally) civilians, and you would have done so no matter if they had valid information, or not.
You also say you tortured them, but describe them as unknowing, simple men and useless privates. Why did you torture them, then, if you knew they would not know anything? Obviously not for information, it appears to me. And not for intimidation of the Iraqis, or did you send the abused bodies back to the other side of the front, or arranged them so that they would be found?
Plain revenge, maybe, for them having shot civilians?
That would be an option that I indeed have forgotten: torturing for personal satisfaction.