"I'm sorry our troops have to listen to idiots like Fat Teddy and Charlie Rangle attack them like a raving Imam in a Wahhabi Mosque."
Idiots like you who think that you are going to puke just because Rumsfeld is going to apologize are simply inhumane! I am not saying that Rumsfeld has personally ordered the humiliation of the prisoners and he deserves punishment. I am simply saying no one is ordering Rumsfeld to strip naked and be dragged by a leash, simply apology does not cost him any thing, and it goes a long way of soothing the anger that we are paying 200 billion dollars to reform.
One of the guys who was stripped naked, and forced on a pile of naked guys, while a lesbo American soldier is laughing was interviewed, and his crime to deserve such treatment was that he was a passenger in a car that was stopped at a check point and found that it was stolen. The guy simply accepted a ride from another guy who may or may not have a stolen car. For that, he was to strip naked and be humiliated in front of a laughing lesbian bitch. The guy is still saying that he was glad that the US liberated his country from Saddam, but in the same time, he said that when Saddam put him in prison a few years before, he was not humiliated that much by his goons. Jesus said by the same measuring cup that you give it would be given back to you. We were not happy when our soldiers were burned and hanged by barbarians, and the rest of the world was also unhappy. Now, we should have the integrity, as our President is showing humility, and sorrow for the barbaric behaviors of a very small number of our military. Thank Clinton for inviting “don’t ask don’t tell”; it brought lots of lesbians low life type to the military.
This entire affair is a stain on the military establishment and thus on the Secretary of Defense.
First, for not seeing that the conditions were ripe for this type of behavior to be possible.
Second, for not taking quick and decisive actions the very first time it raised its ugly head.
Third, for trying to keep it under wraps and not disclosing it to the Commander in Chief and the Congressional defense committees.
And finally, for handing the Democrats a an election year issue.
One Pentagon insider, and author of a Rumsfeld bio was just on Fox & Friends. He said that according to the info he's gotten, Rumsfeld hadn't even seen the pictures and didn't know CBS was going to publish them. I'd still like to know who is responsible for providing the press with these photos.
This author also said that an MP turned the pics over to a higher-up. He had been assigned to the prison and stated that the pics had been passed around on CD-ROM by those at the prison. When he saw them, he knew it wasn't right and so turned it over to a superior.
The author also said that Rumsfeld isn't going anywhere, and that if we got rid of our Defense Secretary's every time somebody down the chain of command committed a crime or violation, we'd never have a sitting Secretary of Defense.
The bottom line he said, is that the Pentagon followed the appropriate steps in pursuing these allegations and conducting the proper investigations.
Last night on Brit Hume's show, Mort Kondracke mentioned that the reason Rumsfeld hadn't said anything about it to Congress in his last briefing to them was because the General in charge hadn't yet signed off on the investigation report. How appropriate would it have been for Rumsfeld to put anything out on it prior to the General reviewing and approving the final report.