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Posted on 10/12/2005 6:18:23 AM PDT by Valin
The former commanding general of prisons in Iraq says she was not in charge of the Abu Ghraib detention facility at the time of the detainee abuse scandal there. "How could (the military) hold me accountable when I had no direct access?" Col. Janis Karpinski told The (Hilton Head) Island Packet. "How come they didn't hold (Defense Secretary Donald) Rumsfeld accountable? How is that possible?" Karpinski was relieved of command and demoted from brigadier general to colonel after allegations that dereliction of duty led to prisoner abuses at Abu Ghraib.
Karpinski said she was the commanding general of the reserve unit responsible for overseeing Iraq's prisons, but that she was not in charge of Abu Ghraib. Instead, Gen. Geoffrey Miller, commander of the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, was in charge. She said that change in command was ordered by Rumsfeld to facilitate interrogation of "security detainees" there. Abu Ghraib was intended to be a clearinghouse to process and transport prisoners, not a prison itself, she said.
The summer before photographs of prisoner abuse became public, Abu Ghraib was transformed into the center of interrogation in Iraq at Miller's behest, she told the newspaper from her home on Hilton Head Island. "He told me he wanted control," she said. "I told him it wasn't mine to give. He'd have to ask (Ambassador Paul) Bremer," former administrator of the U.S.-led occupation.
Karpinski said she has never spoken with the seven soldiers of the 372nd military police company who were charged in the abuse investigation. She was formally relieved of command of the 800th Military Police Brigade on April 8. The 52-year-old Karpinski has written a book: "One Woman's Army: The Commanding General of Abu Ghraib Tells Her Story," that she hopes will help clear her name. "Look how they've tormented me, what they've taken away from me," Karpinski said.
Would you like some cheese with that whine.
wah-wah-wah!!!
I am woman hear me whine.
Making the reader wait until the last line doesn't exactly create trust. This article should have a "Book Deal!" warning.
Isn't the title of her book a little ...misleading..... if she is claiming she had no access? This lady sounds like another feminist legacy of the "PC" Clinton military .. along with the flaky General Claudia Kennedy. However, unlike Claudia, it seems dubious that hotlips Karpinski dated her way up the ranks...at least among the opposite sex.
Good Night, Frau Blucher....
This whiney US Army General and Govenor Blanco would make a lovey match. They could get together to cry on each others shoulders and blame their incompetence on everyone else.
She may not have had operational control of the prison. But it was her unit the didn't properly screen Graner. The guy had been fired from two prisons for abusing prisoners, so her command goes and makes him an MP and and assigns him to the prison. Asleep at the switch!!!!
She had overall control, she was the on-site commander, that is the responsibility you assume when you take a command position. She should have never made it past captain.
If they don't get the Democrat nomination, Hillary can always choose the general for her running mate -- two women with SUCH "leadership" qualities. Race card AND gender card to be played.
Those who gainsay them are BOTH racists and sexists. What a tag team.
She was happy enough to get the title of general. I guess she forgot the responsibilities that went along with the title.
Perhaps she would have preferred the title "Queen" or "Empress" instead. They would seem to go along with her view of the world -- from her "throne."
They deserve each other.
15 minutes of fame + 15 minutes of fame = 30 minutes of fame!
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