Posted on 05/05/2004 9:45:53 AM PDT by u-89
Talk about problem with facts - you're in denial. In case you haven't noticed the Army says this stuff is credible and is taking action in court and the president publicly apologized. If you've got a problem with those facts tell it to Bush and the pentagon not me.
Exactly. "Credible" means that it's worth checking out. It's the court's job to judge the findings, after a torough investigation has been done. Thorough investigation is not the same as the preliminary report you're talking about. But you knew that, didn't you?
president publicly apologized
Not. Another myth fabricated from whole cloth by the media, the Arabs and their anti-American loony friends. The President said that the facts would be found and that justice would be served. No apoligies there.
For details, go to www.whitehouse.gov and stop reading al Jazeera, LewRocwell, Justine Raimondo and other credibility-challenged outlets.
Talk about denial.
>Not. Another myth fabricated from whole cloth by the media
Sorry you're right - acknowledging mistakes is not the same as an apology. Apologies are for errand boys, not the C-in-C. See news headlines below:
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http://news.com.au
No apology from Bush over abuse
By Terence Hunt
May 6, 2004 PRESIDENT George W. Bush has acknowledge US trroops made mistakes, but stopped short of offering an apology for the abuse of Iraqi prisoners.
http://news.ft.com
US jail chief apologises to Iraq over abuse
By Reuters. Monday May 5, 2004. 1.51pm
ABU GHRAIB, Iraq, May 5 (Reuters) - The new general brought in to run U.S. military jails in Iraq following the prisoner abuse scandal offered his own and his nation's apologies for the affair on Wednesday to the people of Iraq.
"I would like to apologise for our nation and for our military for the small number of leaders and soldiers that have committed unauthorised and possibly illegal acts on the detained here at Abu Ghraib," Major General Geoffrey Miller said at the prison outside Baghdad where soldiers abused inmates last year.
Not many people at the time thought so. The Democrats hated him even more than they hate Bush today and the Republicans were convinced he would never win the election in November and tried to dump him.
That's a a good point.
But by the third year of his administration, President Lincoln was adroitly wheeling and dealing on any number of issues.
The "bottom was out of the tub" early in his administration. The bottom continues to fall out of everything this administartion does.
By May of 1864, the rebellion was already noticably unraveling; the insurgency against us in Iraq seems stronger than ever and maladroit actions by the Bush people are putting us further and further behind the power curve and costing us the lives of our people unnecessarily.
What this thing with the abused POW's suggests -- the fact that Bush wasn't briefed on it by DOD (apparently), is that he is not fully in control of the apparatus.
Walt
Bush's first year had a recession, 9-11 and then the corporate scandals. Now the economy is in a boom. The market is back. Jobs are growing. All indicators are up. Do you really want to compare one year into the Iraq war vs one year into the Civil War? Come one Walt. You know better. Faluija was no Shilo.
I'm thinking of Tom Payne right now.
Can I compare Rumseld to McClellan? :)
Walt
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