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.

[maica]

I would guess that she and Hillary know each other. I don't want to upset all the embedded html, so I won't highlight

that she was the highest -ranking female in Iraq.

that she did not even visit the prisons under her command, because security on the street was too LAX

and her goal, which she did not achieve was to visit each prison at least every THREE MONTHS!!!

{Excuses being spread around by General Karpinski}


http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnline/Opinion/Editorials/03OpOPN92050404.htm



Tortured explanations
Abuse of prisoners a result of occupation run on the cheap


Last update: 04 May 2004

Last December, the St. Petersburg Times ran a long profile of Janis Karpinski. As a civilian, Karpinski runs a sort of boot camp for those who want to get ahead fast in the corporate world. Karpinski is also an Army reserve brigadier general. At the time, she was the highest female commander in Iraq, and in charge of 15 prisons and detention facilities in the central and southern part of the country, including Baghdad Central -- the prison once known as Abu Gharib, the Bastille of Saddam Hussein's former regime, where the torture chamber was adjacent to the hanging chamber for psychology's and efficiency's sake.

After it'd been looted bare, the prison was rebuilt into a semimodern detention facility by the U.S. military and stocked again with Iraqi prisoners picked up by coalition forces. The prisoners' conditions were supposedly so good, Karpinski told the Times, that "at one point we were concerned they wouldn't want to leave." In hindsight, the profile reads like a warning of potential trouble: Karpinski wanted to visit every prison under her command at least once every three months. She couldn't, because security on Iraqi roads was too lax. The prison system's guards were a mixture of American National Guard troops and Iraqi police. Neither had any experience guarding prisoners. Overcrowding at the prison was becoming a problem. Oversight was slight.

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[prairiebreeze]

Weasley "the Lizard" Clarke. Gawd, I hate his unblinking soul-less eyes. He gives me the total creeps.

Prairie

[Dog]

We caught Osama..:-)

[Darlin']

That is an excellant point.

[onyx]

I can't see the hearing.
C-Span's video stream keeps cutting-out.
I am listening on line.

[PISANO]

As the ranking member just stated this is a NIGHTMARE of enourmous proportions with mortal consequences and a damage to our military that will take years to overcome!!

That being said, THANK YOU CBS, our beloved LEFTIST news organisation, thank you for your contribution to our NATION'S WAR on TERRORISM, by publishing photos that were SECRET EVIDENCE for a military court-martial they have fullfilled their wildest dreams to hurt the military and this country as much as possible.

WELL DONE CBS!! Now go get the videos quick!!

[EllaMinnow]

The FOXNews website says that the Sunday show line-up is McCain and Evan Bayh, followed by the response to Nightline.

I had hoped they would dedicate the whole hour to it.

[Maigrey]

My bet: They will run them, not knowing that there will be a backlash against the media group that does publish the pictures.

It will be a hige problem, and there will be questions of journalistic integrity balancing the need to know and freedom of the press.

it will be quite messy for a while

[mombonn]

...I bet the Clark appearance on MTP is priming him for the VP slot on the Kerry ticket.

Wouldn't you just LOVE to watch him debate Dick Cheney??? LOL - he'd melt faster than ice cream in August!

[kcvl]

Rumsfeld is creaming this guy.

[Mo1]

OK ... I'll admit you made me look at the Breaking News *L*

[Darlin']

An understatement if I ever saw one. :)

[mindspy]

She looks like one.

[Dog]

:-)

[EllaMinnow]

It's another of Weasel Clark's auditions for VP. I just find it very interesting that none of the dem bigfeet senators demanded the MTP spot for themselves.

[prairiebreeze]

You may be right. The RATS will keep Edwards away from Kerry I believe so as not to tarnish him for possible future use.

Rummy doing very well. "America is not what's wrong with the world!" Points out how people line up to come INTO America. EXCELLENT Mr Secretary.

Rummy put this apologist fool in his place.

Prairie

[ken5050]

Can we do a quick survey to see which Dem everyone thinks has the worst, most despicable today?..

[A Citizen Reporter]

McCain and Byah? Good Lord, who is to speak for our side?

[woodyinscc]

He just put the coup d' grace on him.!!

[cyncooper]

Yes!

Rummy: America is a good country! People line up to come into this country every year. Because it's better than other places. We'll get by this.

All this in response to some jerk faced punk from Rhode Island piously fretting about America losing face and how will we get it back. Rumsfeld pointed out the openness of our actions and dealing with it shows the world what we're made of. Myers now says the same thing: Go Rummy! Go Myers!