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To: blueskyline
Of all the individuals involved in the Abu Ghraib mess, do you remember what was special about Staff Sgt. Ivan "Chip" Frederick?

I remember and for months I have been hoping that that SOB would have the book thrown at him.

Frederick was the nephew of Bill Lawson.

Bill Lawson was the uncle that tried to blackmail the U.S. Army into dropping the charges against his nephew that rose out of the Army investigation of the Abu Ghraib incident on the threat of releasing the CD-R full of Abu Ghraib photos that Frederick mailed to him when he came under investigation.

When the U.S. Army refused to cave in to the blackmail, Uncle Bill hooked up with Hackworth, CBS and 60 Minutes to pour the gasoline of the Abu Ghraib photos on the fire of the Iraq War.

Later, Uncle Bill gloated that "the Army could have avoided all of this" if the Army had only caved in to the blackmail instead of following the Rule of Law.

As a result of what Frederick and his family did, the terrorists had a fantastic recruiting tool, the violence against American forces escalated, the Democrats were able to convince a large percentage of the American Sheeple that the war was immoral and every America-hater around the World used Frederick's photos of perversion as the symbol of the American military.

American soldiers and civilians died and the entire U.S. war effort was jeopardized as a direct result of what that family of traitors did.

Frederick deserves every minute of his 8 years in prison.

What goes around, comes around Uncle Bill.

50 posted on 10/21/2004 5:53:26 PM PDT by Polybius
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To: Polybius
Bump. Thanks for your synopsis.

I've been trying to google old threads to find the timeline and names.
I agree with your description of the media's exploitation of this story (CBS in particular, but hardly the exclusive as the NYTimes kept Abu Ghraib on the front page for 30 consecutive days in 2004). It WAS the turning point in the war.

It (the story) was designed (in the media's eyes) to turn the public against the war and the Bush administration (assuring a Democrat win). It RESULTED in the murder of Nick Berg (but not his kidnapping, he and others were already being held hostage).

It DID ramp up the jihadist role in the "insurgency" which had formerly consisted of Iraqi soldiers who didn't want to give up. Terrorists have been flooding into Iraq ever since.
92 posted on 08/10/2006 2:30:19 PM PDT by weegee (Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
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