[maica]

The Generals brought a timeline on a poster to the hearings. I hope it became part of the Congressional Record. It seemed to me that whenever a Senator's question could have been answered by using the poster, the Generals were deflected by the Senators. That might be just my perception. However, in 6 hours of testimony, I did not get a clear sense of the timeline. Either it was already clear to the Senators and Representatives, or they really did not care about much except 'getting' Rumsfeld.

[norton]

To both 8 and 9:

It seems clear that things were moving well along officially within about 30-45 days.

What STILL is not clear is when the 8 or so troops/the Iraqi guards/Immediate command/MI/CIA perps were relieved &/or cuffed and hauled off.

In my mind THAT remains the central issue;
not how long did an investigation and corrective action at system level take, but how soon the ill-treatment was stopped and conditions brought to acceptable;
not have we jointly and with wails and ululations apologized to 'the Iraqi people', but how quickly we corrected the conditions (as much as appropriate) for prisoners that were shown in the photos.