Rumsfeld Gave Go-Ahead For Abu Ghraib Tactics, Says General In Charge

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 7-4-2004 | Julian Coman

[MikefromOhio]

yeah sure whatever....does she have it in writing? No? didnt think so....

[Max Combined]

Brig-Gen Janis Karpinski is a disgrace.

[Shermy]

"dogs, food deprivation and sleep deprivation".

And this is different than most any prison in the world how?

[tet68]

If this is true, IF THIS IS TRUE...

We need to give Rumsfeld a medal, maybe a pay increase.
At least an "Atta BOY!".

[gov_bean_ counter]

She will eventually talk herself into a cell at Leavenworth.

[wildbill]

She ought to be thinking about the future of women in the services instead of her own hiney.

All this whining and trying to CYA is not a model of a very modern general.

[chilepepper]

I think Abu Ghraib has more or less run its course. The media will try to cover the trials as if they are important, but i think people will give rummy a pass on this -- unless they discover that some iraqi heads were cut off in abu ghraib by OUR guys... i wouldn't doubt soddom did it all the time...

[muawiyah]

This ol'gal already tried the "blame the Jews" trick and that didn't work. Now she's blaming Rumsfeld.

[Shermy]

"does she have it in writing? No? didnt think so...."

Sure she does. The one that says "I, Donald Rumsfeld, encourage and condone the stripping of men and posing them in sexual situations for the entertainment of our troops"

Not.

[dts32041]

see tag line

[saquin]

This ol'gal already tried the "blame the Jews" trick and that didn't work.

Oh, it worked all right. It's now the top story on Al Jazeera.

[fso301]

Ilsa Koch: The Bitch of Buchenwald

Brig. Gen. Janis "Butch" Karpinski, Prison Matron of Abu Ghraib

[mudblood]

You can't have backseat driving in a war. Nor armchair generals in every home in America, bitching and moaning every time someone gets a paper cut or pulls some embarrassing stunt. In the short term, while there's still fighting and our men and women are in danger, I couldn't care if they were marching around the prison with Iraqi baby's impaled on bayonets. Let the army deal with it, let our leaders win this war, and then when the dust settles you go back, see what you did wrong, and do your best to make sure it doesn't happen again. Questioning every damn thing that goes on in Iraq is just counter productive. Unless you're a dem, that is.

[prisoner6]

Janis...Janis...whos da cute li'l general? Yous is da cute li'l general Janis...

You think the stuff we've heard about is abuse? Lemme at 'em....I'll show yunz abuse....

prisoner6

[mystery-ak]

She's lying to cover her a$$...if she would have done her job in the first place, her command wouldn't look like a bunch of perverts.

[AngieGOP]

"She's lying to cover her a$$...if she would have done her job in the first place, her command wouldn't look like a bunch of perverts."

You got that right. This gal isn't fit to run a sewing circle let alone a prison.

[BulletBobCo]

That is one fugly bee-ahch!

[sgtbono2002]

This is the same woman that claimed no one liked her enough to drop a dime on the torture, and admitted she ddint know waht was going on , Now she has evidence against Rumsfeld.

Damn gal how did you make general? Dont answer that I already know . They needed a woman to be a general and you were standing in the right place at the right time.

[secretagent]

According to a 1998 report by Mr Flyer, one third of military recruits had arrest records. A 1995 report found that a quarter of serving army personnel had committed one or more criminal offences while on active duty. In his 2003 study, Mr Flyer said that military personnel officers had been reluctant to toughen up screening procedures, fearing that the result would be a failure to meet recruitment goals.

Surprising.

I wonder what percentages of consensual crimes, violent crimes, crimes against property, and the discharge rates for crimes committed while in the service.