General Says 'conspiracy' Among Top Commanders Left Her to Blame for Abu..

[G_j]

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0905-02.htm

Published on Sunday, September 5, 2004 by the Associated Press

General Says 'conspiracy' Among Top Commanders Left Her to Blame for Abu Ghraib

by Jim Krane

BAGHDAD, Iraq - The Army general who once ran detention operations in Iraq said a "conspiracy" among top U.S. commanders has left her to blame for the abuses of Iraqi inmates at Abu Ghraib prison.

Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski, who commanded the Army's 800th Military Police Brigade, said she fears more senior Army generals may escape punishment, even though they issued or approved guidelines on the interrogation of Iraqi prisoners.

Karpinski said in an e-mail interview with The Associated Press that she was unfairly cited by a report issued last month by an independent panel of nongovernment experts headed by former defense secretary James Schlesinger.

The Schlesinger report blamed Karpinski for leadership failures that "helped set the conditions at the prison which led to the abuses." She failed to ensure that Iraqi prisoners were protected by the Geneva Conventions and failed to deal with ineffective commanders below her. It recommended that she be relieved of command and given a letter of reprimand, which would essentially end her career.


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[Kathy in Cambridge]

2. Can't you think of ANYTHING MORE ORIGINAL?

than spamming Democrats because YOU THINK we forget 9/11? Puh-LEESE!

[G_j]

3. yea , next time someone wrongs you

just go out and kill and torture people that had absolutely nothing to do with it. Now that takes real Christian courage!

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[G_j]

5. you do know that Iraq had NOTHING to do with that

don't you?

zilch...zero...nada...?

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[Kathy in Cambridge]

7. Oh PLEASE!

Go spout your RW talking points elsewhere. You PROVE to US that iraq and 9-11 are connected.

:eyes:

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[Sparkly]

9. hahaHA!! Hey, we can't prove Switzerland didn't have anything to do

with it!

Let's bomb Switzerland!!

:eyes:

[G_j]

10. that Iraq was not connected to the WTC attacks?

LOL! try asking the CIA or reading the 9-11 report for starters.

Do you take great pride in not educating yourself?

[leesa]

13. It's been proved over and over again. The Afghans we murdered also had

nothing to do with 9-11. How did you get to be so uninformed???

[G_j]

14. sometimes being uninformed

takes a great deal discipline you know.. :shrug:

[jukes]

11. next time

you'll do iy elsewhere. bye bye disruptor...

[stepnw1f]

8. Yeah we Remeber Bush Doing Nothing for 7 Minutes

So what's the point svinki?