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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-08-05 04:17 PM
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Soldier who denounced abuses in Iraq given psychiatric exam
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20050308/wl_mideast_afp/usiraqprisoners&cid=1514&ncid=1473

WASHINGTON (AFP) - An army sergeant was given a psychiatric examination and sent out of Iraq (news - web sites) after he reported that members of his counter-intelligence team in Samarra were abusing prisoners, according to army investigation documents. snip

But the sergeant's case was unusual in that his superior officers responded to his allegations that members of his counter-intelligence unit were abusing prisoners by having him examined by a military psychiatrist.


The documents show that the commander of the 223rd military intelligence battalion and his executive officer, who had previously led the counter-intelligence team, met with the psychiatrist after she initially gave the complaining sergeant a clean bill of mental health.


The psychiatrist later told investigators "her chain of command put undue pressure on her which forced her to decide to send the sergeant back to the United States," according to the documents.


The army dropped its investigation into the sergeant's abuse allegations on grounds that victims could not be found "and there is no serious injury and/or substantial loss of government or personal property."

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AtTheEndOfTheDay Donating Member (454 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-08-05 05:00 PM
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1. Shocked, shocked!
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oblivious Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-09-05 01:17 AM
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2. Someone here said that was an old KGB trick to repress dissidence.
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w4rma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-09-05 03:50 AM
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3. There wasn't anyone tortured! Noone was harmed! It's all his imagination!
Edited on Wed Mar-09-05 03:50 AM by w4rma
See? He even had to go to the shrink because of his craaazy anti-American imagination! And the shrink even sent him home deeming him unfit for Iraq duty.
</sarcasm>

Hey freeper lurkers! This totalitarian/fascist BS is YOUR fault.
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ninkasi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-09-05 04:38 AM
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4. Oh, sure, he's crazy...
Even though there is photographic evidence, and many, many other accounts of torture, he just needs to be "reprogrammed". All is well in Bush's America. We never make mistakes, and when we do, they are covered up...wouldn't want to send the wrong "message", would we?

And as far as the freepers who claim there is no torture, it's just like a bunch of fraternity pranks, why don't you volunteer to subject yourselves to the same treatment, and see if your opinion stays the same? You might find yourself diagnosed as crazy, too.
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Tsiyu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-09-05 05:08 AM
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5. That's always the first step abusers take when you
call them out on their abuse.

They call YOU crazy.

It works in courtrooms all over the US. Why not in a "free" Iraq as well?
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Hissyspit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-09-05 05:14 AM
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6. DU Poll Alert! Why is the yahoo rating on this article so low?
Freeps at work? Americans with kill-the-messenger attitude?
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annabanana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-09-05 05:43 AM
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7. low count.... it's early
I'm surprised this didn't get released on a Friday night news dump...
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