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To: kcvl
Whay can't people just own up to their mistakes? You don't need to be taught about the GC to know that sexual abuse is wrong.

It's not my fault, I was just doing what they told me. I don't think so.
2,974 posted on 05/07/2004 2:02:26 PM PDT by highlandbreeze (....that others may live.)
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To: highlandbreeze
Press Release Source: Newsweek


NEWSWEEK EXCLUSIVE: Karpinski Says She Had Warned Her Superiors About the Treatment of Iraqi Prisoners at Abu Ghurayb Detention Facility; 'They Just Wanted it to Go Away,' She Says

Sunday May 2, 1:22 pm ET

'The Stupidest Thing the Army Could Have Done is Charge These Reservists...Any Defense Lawyer is Going to Push to Find Out Who Was Really Calling the Shots at Abu Ghurayb,' Says Defendant's Lawyer


NEW YORK, May 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski, the commander of the Army Reserve's 800th Military Police Brigade who oversaw guards at U.S. detention facilities in Iraq, including those at Saddam Hussein's former torture center at Abu Ghurayb, tells Newsweek she warned her superiors from the first about the ill-treatment of Iraqi prisoners. The trouble was, Karpinski says, she didn't have enough troops or resources to do the job right, and the men at the top ignored her complaints. "They just wanted it to go away," she says.


http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040502/nysu015_1.html
2,980 posted on 05/07/2004 2:04:01 PM PDT by kcvl
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