i) the "torture" memo was probably disseminated only among top DOJ and admin officials. Probably no one at the Pentagon (to say nothing of the Abu Ghraid staff) ever saw or heard anything about it until this week;
ii)The W Compost was slandering Gen. Sanchez yesterday by implying that he had approved the "torture" at Abu Ghraib. What Sanchez approved was the use of certain coercive techniques, when specifically requested and authorized. This was already reported weeks ago, and Gen. Sanchez testified that no such specific requests were made nor any such authorizations given. In any case the coercive techniques subject to approval did not encompass any of the abuses documented at Abu Ghraib.
This is simply another digusting attempt by the press to manufacture a story implicating the Bush administration in something when the facts don't warrant it.
BTW, while we're talking about Abu Ghraib, shall we recall what the late Mike Spann told Johnny Taliban on the video tape from Mazar i Sharif we all saw two years ago? He told him he would be killed if he did not cooperate. No one complained then (except for some of the usual leftist suspects), because we were still angry and afraid after 9/11.
Sorry, but what angers me about Abu Ghraib is the lack of discipline among the troops there, not the adoption of a realistic framework for coercive interrogations by Gen. Sanchez and the DOD, a framework which was never applied by the command there.
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