The presence of Israeli forces in Iraq would inflame opinion in the Muslim world, where many compare the abuse of prisoners by U.S. forces to Israel's treatment of Palestinian detainees.
Which is probably why she is trying to push this story...to take the spotlight away from herself.
Take responsiblity for the conduct of your soldiers, General.
Karpinski should STFU.
The anti-Semites will be out in droves on this thread.
The Israeli's are so good at interrogations I'd welcome their involvement.
ahhhh...the israeli connection instead of the french connection...at least the israeli are more trustworthy tan the frogs...
This story seems a little to convenience for Karpinski. The word 'fabrication' comes to mind.
I have a feeling Karpinski may have fabricated this story to take pressure off her and point it elsewhere. Israel is always a convenient scapegoat.
This Karpinski should be in the brig for shooting that information out to the press.
"The presence of Israeli forces in Iraq would inflame opinion in the Muslim world, where many compare the abuse of prisoners by U.S. forces to Israel's treatment of Palestinian detainees."
Interesting charge without evidence. This twit is not helping her case, cause "if" she now wants to cover her lack of competence, and sees this as method, it is beyond credibility.
She was in charge of the prison, and she was "incompetent", (a little Hillry speak).
she has a big mouth
I've served under and known several Generals (male and female) in my time, and none have shown her lack of leadership and discretion.
She and General Clark seem to be cut from the same thread.
She's a text-book failure of affirmative action, in my opinion.
Anything that gets the intel out of these B***ARDS is fine with me.Karpinski is probably FOS,and even if not,she is still responsible for those under her command.America and Israel always switch off as bogeyman in the media,despite the facts.
Which side of the war is she on? I hope they find a good reason to court martial her.
On second thought, this goes beyond stupidity. If she is trying to damage the cause of the Good Guys, she's doing a swell job.
She is the epitome of a modern PC clinton regime senior officer, in other words, a disgrace to the uniform.
Is she retired? If so she should be brought back to active duty, charged accordingly. Stripped of her PENSION and put in Leavenworth.(SP)
She's an embarrasment to every woman who wears/or has worn a uniform, not to mention every soldier.
The General is responsible for the actions of her troops and if she wasn't aware of what was going on with her little band of pornographers and sex addicts running loose in the prison, then she has been ill-served by her subordinates and they should all be fired. Muddying the waters by insinuating that the Jews are to blame for the scandal is so Nazi-like. These yammering Clintonesque generals think nothing of putting America's foreign policy in jeopardy to save their own stinking hides.
What a typical lefty play: Blame the Jooooos.
'I speak Arabic but I'm not an Arab; I'm from Israel.'
Depends what the definition of "from" is. From that conversation one could just as easily deduce the guy was a U.S. citizen born in Israel. Or a Frenchman, or anything, without more information.
Gee, is this the same Karpinski who won the Ice Skating Gold Medal at the Olympics a couple of years back?
Looks like she has fallen on hard times; stood much to close to an ugly stick?
Karpinski seems to be an instance of the Peter Principle, which involves promoting people beyond their levels of competence. Her level of competence seems to be somewhere around corporal, but she was promoted to Brigadier because, I assume, she's a woman. Sorry, but it's hard to think of any other possible reason.
She was almost sidelined earlier because her troops were out of control--living together, behaving insubordinately toward visiting officers, not properly dressed, and so forth. But she wasn't disciplined then because she's a woman.
This woman is going to make a lot of trouble before she leaves the scene. It's predictable. The press will butter her up and flatter her, and she'll give them plenty of quotes to run with. It just proves once again: Don't promote people to responsible positions if they can't do the job. Especially don't do it if the media are running around the edges of your administration looking for quislings, traitors, and useful idiots.