LIVE THREAD: Rumsfeld Testifies Regarding Treatment of Iraqi Prisoners

http://freerepublic.com ^ | May 7, 2004

[Howlin]

Link to C-SPAN

http://inside.c-spanarchives.org:8080/cspan/schedule.csp

I'm sure all the networks will be showing this.

[mombonn]

Yike, this pimple-faced idiot is equating it to Pearl Harbor!

[cyncooper]

I think you're timeline is very close.

I wanted to slap Tauscher's idiotic face a few minutes ago.

Thank God Rummy corrected the many things she said that were wrong.

("Didn't you take reports of abuse seriously?" SLAP)

[Miss Marple]

I have been following this thread all day. Thanks to all of you for your comments!

Here is something no one has addressed. If the positions and nudity of those prisoners was humiliating (which I agree with) then WHY did CBS PARTICIPATE in their humiliation by making sure that every person in the Arab world knew what had happened? If those pictures hadn't been aired, the Army would still have been investigating and court martialing people, and perhaps some of the people that were treated this way wouldn't have been embarassed in front of their whole darn country!!!!

[Maigrey]

Maybe the kids know that being NOW is hypocritical and not benefital.

[BriarBey]

LOL!
I get my free (to me) calling card
from my husband... who thinks I only
use it to call our daughter in the Carribean.

WHAT?!! Thats not free!! Tell your hubby I need a phone card to talk to Georgie!! He NEEDS to know my opinion!
still holding.....Maybe I'll cook supper and hold.

[kcvl]

I wonder if Karpinski is/was a Hillary Clinton "friend"? She had them scattered throughout the government.

[mass55th]

"Myers called CBS and asked them not to run the photos on 60 Minutes II."

CBS could have actually compromised any criminal prosecutions of those involved by airing those photos.

These photos should have been kept by the legal or prosecuting section of the military that was bringing charges against these people. They are evidence in criminal cases and dissemination of them is illegal I believe. For them to be shared with anyone outside of that department would be tatamount to violating the rights of the defendents and could effect the outcome of any disciplinary hearings held.

[Darlin']

LOL. Thank you. :) How U do that so quickly... read my mind like that ?
Helen Tauscher, the gentlenitwit from California

[A Citizen Reporter]

Well, according to the Beast, the pictures were described in full detail in writing, (in the report that she had before the Pentagon did) so that the release of the pictures really wasn't a pertinent part of the discussion. (Thus showing her complicity)

[Cold Heat]

WHY did CBS PARTICIPATE in their humiliation by making sure that every person in the Arab world knew what had happened? If those pictures hadn't been aired, the Army would still have been investigating and court martialing people, and perhaps some of the people that were treated this way wouldn't have been embarassed in front of their whole darn country!!!!

The 1,000,000 dollar question!

I think we know the answer.

CBS is blatently anti-war and anti Bush...........Nuff said.

[Maigrey]

I tend to think that the MP command will be reamed out, and bring in some honorable people who will balance between doing what they need to do, and what they can do.

[highlandbreeze]

I sincerely hope you are right!

[Dog]

Question for the group.

There are worse photos still to come......will the media.....risk a major backlash and run them or fold up and go home.

[cyncooper]

Heather Wilson struck me as kind of dim and she got on my last nerve.

Now this Cole is bugging me. Rumsfeld tells him "You knew exactly what we knew".

Sheesh!

These people are all stooopid.

They had a premise, it's been demonstrated to be flawed but they don't wish to understand it yet.

[Darlin']

FOFLOL.

[ken5050]

The Dems expect the President to know all..to micromanage..like when JImmy Carter scheduled the use of the WH tennis court, remember..

[Right_in_Virginia]

They'll run them 24/7

[kcvl]

CBS shoud NOT get a pass for this...


You can send a complaint to fccinfo@fcc.gov

[Darlin']

Yes, but I think that has been known, hasn't it ?

[onyx]

I am so furious.
So damn sick of these posturing slugs.
He answered him.
Damn, damn, damn.