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lederhosenIn addition to the scores of prisoners who were humiliated and demeaned, at least 14 have died in custody in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Army has ruled at least two of those homicides. This is not the way a free people keeps its captives or wins the hearts and minds of a suspicious world...
Myers, Rumsfeld and their staffs failed to recognize the impact the scandal would have not only in the United States, but around the world.
If their staffs failed to alert Myers and Rumsfeld, shame on them. But shame, too, on the chairman and secretary, who failed to inform even President Bush.
He was left to learn of the explosive scandal from media reports instead of from his own military leaders.
On the battlefield, Myers’ and Rumsfeld’s errors would be called a lack of situational awareness — a failure that amounts to professional negligence...
This was not just a failure of leadership at the local command level. This was a failure that ran straight to the top. Accountability here is essential — even if that means relieving top leaders from duty in a time of war.
- excerpt from an editorial running in those well-known bastions of pinko liberalism, the Army, Navy, Marine, and Air Force Times.
Something to bear in mind next time an armchair pundit tells you how supporting Our Soldiers means not questioning the handling of this war.
More photos, not yet released; even if the Pentagon try to keep these suppressed, I'll be surprised if they don't leak. Red Cross reports of brutality at Abu Ghraib back in October, and estimates that 70-90% of those imprisoned in Iraq are there by mistake. Prison abuses used as a justification for the murder of a hostage (who seems to have been a genuine civilian). And perhaps most serious of all, rumblings of more whistleblowers coming up, threatening to implicate senior command - which would run contrary to Rumsfeld's claims that the abuses didn't go up the chain of command.
Things are starting to heat up for Donny. Don't stop now, please.
Myers, Rumsfeld and their staffs failed to recognize the impact the scandal would have not only in the United States, but around the world.
If their staffs failed to alert Myers and Rumsfeld, shame on them. But shame, too, on the chairman and secretary, who failed to inform even President Bush.
He was left to learn of the explosive scandal from media reports instead of from his own military leaders.
On the battlefield, Myers’ and Rumsfeld’s errors would be called a lack of situational awareness — a failure that amounts to professional negligence...
This was not just a failure of leadership at the local command level. This was a failure that ran straight to the top. Accountability here is essential — even if that means relieving top leaders from duty in a time of war.
- excerpt from an editorial running in those well-known bastions of pinko liberalism, the Army, Navy, Marine, and Air Force Times.
Something to bear in mind next time an armchair pundit tells you how supporting Our Soldiers means not questioning the handling of this war.
More photos, not yet released; even if the Pentagon try to keep these suppressed, I'll be surprised if they don't leak. Red Cross reports of brutality at Abu Ghraib back in October, and estimates that 70-90% of those imprisoned in Iraq are there by mistake. Prison abuses used as a justification for the murder of a hostage (who seems to have been a genuine civilian). And perhaps most serious of all, rumblings of more whistleblowers coming up, threatening to implicate senior command - which would run contrary to Rumsfeld's claims that the abuses didn't go up the chain of command.
Things are starting to heat up for Donny. Don't stop now, please.
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Date: 2004-05-11 08:21 pm (UTC)Also, this is relegated to an obscure link on CNN, but it's worth a look:
Senator Inhofe tells the American people they're overreacting about the prisoner abuse.
When your own party walks out of the hearings on you, you know you must be right... /sarcasm