Abu Ghraib general describes her Iraq tour

AP ^ | 8/27/05 | CHARLES J. HANLEY

[GreenAccord]

You nailed it.

[jos65]

2008 Pesidential Prophesy?????

[NonValueAdded]

Revising ... Karpinski talks like she was a buck private that couldn't do anything about any of this. A commander that sees this, does nothing about it, and complains later is a total loser criminally culpable in my NVA's book.

[uremus]

I meant to include the Officers and Senior Enlisted in her command who failed to provide the leadership and responsibility of their positions in the "reduce and drum out", but got ahead of myself a bit. Im sure there must have been at least one or two in each category who attempted to correct, or at least alert outside authority, but have seen no information of that.

[CyberAnt]

"Janis Karpinski"


What a disgrace she is. In the Clinton years of promoting women within the military just to be PC .. this is what we got - a "dysfunctional" leader who could not lead.

I really resent the fact she can make money on her disgusting behavior.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

I agree. Then she turns around and says she got a raw deal? I would say anything less than prison is too good of a deal for her.

[NonValueAdded]

As many have pointed out on this thread with the speed of Tanker KC and Buckhead, the woman didn't have a clue about command and should never have made it past her butter bar years. The simple fact that she puts this in print and is not mortally embarrased by what she writes proves the point. Or maybe her ghost writer was never even acquainted with the military and she didn't bother to read the draft.

I wonder what kind of political pressure kept her superiors from taking action? Perhaps they thought putting her in command of a prision was a safe place to park her sorry butt and not get any of her troops killed. Tragically, that was a wrong answer. Just goes to show the damage that occurs from social promotions and running the military like a jobs program.

Her senior enlisted and staff officers should be pulling duty in Alaska, Greenland, or a supply depot in the Sahara ... after an appropriate stretch at Levenworth.

[RichInOC]

I still say she's proof that Colonel Klink had kids.

[TADSLOS]

This "Officer" deserved and should have been courts-martialed, reduced in rank and/or drummed out of the Service.

Totally agree, along with the battalion and company commanders, platoon leaders, CSMs, 1SGs and PSGs charged with the Abu Ghraib mission. The 15-6 report clearly shows a pattern of abject command and leadership failure. Her excuse that these elements of her command were "chopped" to another MI Brigade doesn't wash either. She and her subordinate "leaders" ineffectual and negligent style of command and control bely the politically correct promotion system infecting our military, and is especially evident in the Reserve Component in this case.

Yet, I suspect we have yet to hear the last of her. She will, no doubt, make the speaking engagement and talk show circuit hawking her book and will probably be hired as a CNN consultant in betweeen celebrity attendance at MoveOn.org protest events.

[rawhide]

This woman was a very poor excuse for an officer. She is responsible, no matter how she tries to blame others. She is inept. She got what she deserved, unfortunately, the US has to suffer the consequences of her careless mismanagement.

[Oztrich Boy]

The only woman commanding general in the war zone, Abu Ghraib prison chief Janis Karpinski, has written a memoir of her fateful year there, a candid portrait of an often dysfunctional U.S. Army - of "Sergeant Bilko meets Catch 22," as she puts it.

Apalling. I wonder who was responsible?

[Valin]

She screws up, gets demoted, and now writes a book to tell how it was all everyone else's fault.

Welcome to modern America.
She's not the 1st to do this, and I suspect she won't be the last. The thing is these kind of book end up on the remainder rack in a very short time.