>>Though a security guard mistakenly believed the bottle belonged to the shop, store personnel later concluded it was her property and had been "clearly partially used." <<
On this charge, with what is presented here, I think she's getting the shaft. When it comes to her being the Commander at Abu Ghraib, I think she deserves a royal shafting along with the idiot who recommended her for that position.
Had the IG made sure she would have to wear her panties on her head for a year, then and only then would the ragheads be satisfied.
Just another senior female officer who held her position by 'assuming the position.'
If you take Karpinski's version of the incident at face value, I agree.
If you took a similar poll of all the inmates in federal prison you would like find the vast majority are innocent, too.
I'm not saying Karpinski's version of the shoplifting incident isn't true. I am saying I would very slow to accept it at face value given how she has responded to the Abu Ghraib caper.
Again, some people are honest to the core. One indicator of a fundamentally honest soul is a willingness to accept personal responsibility even when to do so puts you in a bad light. One the other hand, if you find someone who brazenly denies the obvious in one case because it would make them look bad, you can generally expect them to behave similarly whenever acceptance of personal responsibility would make them look bad.