Then can it not be said that they are acting disloyal to the country they are supposed to be serving? They are forced to serve in the armed forcesthrough conscription so the "loyalty" factor can't come into play.....They have no interest in dying for Saddam or his regime.....In fact, the people who are surrendering actually will welcome the fall of the governement..... they are in fact breaking a code of ethics in their unit and army force? So the fact that they are killed I dont view as wrong because killing is wrong, like most people are doing, and then going further as to calling them animals. The people who are killing the men that are surrendering are not part of the organized military....they are part of Saddams private terror squard (a non-government entity) that rules with an iron fist using tactics of terror, torture, and murder.....They have been doing this for 30 years.....Murdering or torturing innocents who do not want to be FORCED to live under oppresive dictorship....so my question to you is.... How can it have anything to do with military ethics if the men doing the murdering are not part of the Iraqi military? If looked at from that perspective you could argue that they are in fact closer to the bare level of being "animals" being that they engaged in the activity long before this war started. Therefore, their actions are not a direct result of military action. They have been slaughtering dissenters, both military and non-military, for decades. so then to call Iraqi soldiers animals you would have to call American soldiers animals as well. thats what i have been saying all along....