1. There is a cat fight over the actual use of the Abu Ghriab facility that has been going on for quite some time.
2. Somewhere after the completion of the rebuilding of the prison, and after the military took over, someone messed up... to what degree is debateable. If it was part of interrogations, thats ok and much less of an issue. If it was aimless and pointless military troops just getting their jollies, THAT stops right with the general. That shows exactly what kind of leader she is.
Some argue that panties on the head and getting hit with a nerf bat is humiliating, but not very serious. None the less its on the news often in vague terms so that makes it worse.
3. Finally SOMEWHERE in the military ranks SOMEONE is responsible. If she is the general in charge...DUH. Generals are supposed to kick ass and take names. It sounds to me like extremely poor leadership on her part.
No matter WHAT so and so did before, a strong leader would lay down the law as to what THEY want NOW, and from this time forth.
It sounds a might lot like the CEO of a company talking to shareholders, "Our share price dropped $10 a share because the sales department didn't do its job, the finance team sucks, and this place is a wreck. Its totally disorganized!" Thats more of a self indictment than anything.
That is, unless they put generals in position and give them no real authority...sort of a figurehead only type of thing...
Where's the "bimbo general" alert? ;)
Dear President Bush: You are the Commander-in-Chief. Take care of this, okay?!!
Women in the military is not a good thing. How many high ranking, highly qualified male leaders have been forced to leave the Armed Forces because their female counterparts have charged them with "sexual harrassment"? When political agenda is put in front of military unity, the military loses something very valuable and important to its success. Apparenlty this woman, "Gen" Karpinski, can't take the heat without trying to bring a male General Officer or two down with her. This whole thing happened under her direct supervision and control; if she had any gullionies whatsoever she'd just..... oops, I forgot myself for a moment.
She is a disgrace to the uniform and should never have gone as far as she did. We need to take back our Armed Forces!
She is a disgrace to the uniform!
"The American general who was in charge of Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison claimed she was being made a scapegoat for the abuse of detainees, and said her successor once told her that prisoners should be treated "like dogs." "
The implication of 'scapegoat' is that she did nothing wrong. She supposed to be able to think for herself to some degree. She was wrong and has to accept the responsibility. I would not be surprised if there were others that should be court-marshaled who just happened to be better at covering their own backsides. The 'like dogs' remark could very easily be taken out of context and who cares what he said anyway? He wasn't the one on duty.
Karpinski is unqualified to run a lemonade stand.