WHAT ELSE DO YOU CALL THIS BUT KIDNAPPING FOR RANSOM?

The AP is reporting that the U.S. Army used wives as leverage to force their suspected-insurgent husbands to turn themselves in.

In one case, a secretive task force locked up the young mother of a nursing baby, a U.S. intelligence officer reported. In the case of a second detainee, one American colonel suggested to another that they catch her husband by tacking a note to the family's door telling him "to come get his wife."

The issue of female detentions in Iraq has taken on a higher profile since kidnappers seized American journalist Jill Carroll on Jan. 7 and threatened to kill her unless all Iraqi women detainees are freed.

These kinds of behavior sure make it hard to take the moral high road when Americans are kidnapped by terrorists or insurgents. I'll say it again, this war (as well as this administration) is bad for so many reasons, and one of them is that it is corrupting the moral values of our military and our nation and ruining the good name of the U.S.A.

Tags: U.S. Army, Iraq war, kidnapping