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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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