Getting a Grip on the Iraqi Prison Scandal

NewsMax ^ | Saturday, May. 8, 2004 | With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

[malia]

That's right, I did hear the word "compensation".

[Kaslin]

Yes compensations was the word he used. But this morning Ellen ratner was on Fox and Friends and said thei families should get reparations. She also said the preadident should have done like Billy Jeff did, when he said "I feel your pain." I just about fell over for such idiodicy

[malia]

Yes, I heard 'compensations' just not the 'reparations'. Which sends chills, beings the dems buy the votes thru reparations.

From viewing Secretary Rumsfeld's response and expression to Sen. clinton I feel something else is brewing. The dots have never connected with this story.

[Kaslin]

Of course the media ignores this and I do hope that FNC will get this out as it should come out

[malia]

Thanks for clearing that up -

In fact, the real atrocity would be if U.S. soldiers who have put their own lives on the line are placed at even greater risk in the name guaranteeing the human rights of folks whose stated aim is to kill tens of thousands of American civilians by any means possible.

[prairiebreeze]

I don't think the President and Rummy were necessarily apologizing to just the Arabs. They were apologizing to America and the coalition. They HAD to say something, IMO.

That said, now that they have I see no reason for further dwelling on the apologies aspect.

Prairie

[Kaslin]

I agree 1000%

[SuziQ]

No one is countenancing a rerun of the Bataan Death March - nor, it should be noted - anything close to the way Saddam ran Abu Ghriab. In fact, most of those who now pretend to be horrified over the Iraqi prison scandal expressed not one whit of outrage over Saddam's genocide.

Didn't the President make just this point in his remarks about it the other day? As for his apology, he didn't make it TO King Abdullah,. but a general "I'm sorry for the humiliation of the prisoners," to all Iraqis, especially given what little we really know about why all this happened.

[Barney Gumble]

I liked this article a lot. It summarized everything I was thinking. I was starting to wonder if I was evil in not-really feeling sorry for them, and not believing Bush should go on his whirlwin of apologies. (though orgy of apolgies was a better phrase)

1. They were probably bad bad men. They were only humilated. Who knows what they were doing before they got captured. If they had been arrested after planning an attack to kill civilians, would everyone feel so bad?

2. The army was already investigating it. I don't know why Bush didn't say something like, "well we were concerned, that's why there was an internal report done by the Army, with consequences to follow."