(Grovelling on bended knee) Bush to Go on Arab TV Over Prisoner Abuse

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=544&ncid=716&e=1&u=/ap/20040505/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_prisoner_abuse

Bush to Go on Arab TV Over Prisoner Abuse

By JOHN J. LUMPKIN, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - Trying to contain an increasingly damaging controversy, President Bush planned two interviews with Arab television to underscore his aversion to photographs of naked detainees and gloating U.S. soldiers at a prison in Iraq. <snip>

"I was in a unit that was responsible for My Lai," Powell, a former Army general, said on CNN's "Larry King Live" program, referring to the notorious 1968 incident when U.S. soldiers gunned down hundreds of Vietnamese villagers in what was thought to be a Viet Cong stronghold. "I got there after My Lai happened. So in war these sorts of horrible things happen every now and again, but they're still to be deplored." <snip>

In a sign the probe of prisoner treatment was widening, U.S. military officials acknowledged Tuesday that a CIA contract interrogator was under investigation in connection with the death of an Iraqi prisoner. <snip>

Since December 2002, the Army has investigated the deaths of 25 people in U.S. custody in Iraq and Afghanistan, including the two determined to be homicides, Ryder said. Of those, 12 were found to have died of natural or undetermined causes. One killing was found to be the justifiable shooting of a prisoner attempting to escape. The remaining 10 cases remained under investigation.

Another 10 cases of abuse, assault and other crimes on prisoners also remained under investigation, Ryder said. <snip>

How the hell is he going to know what to say? Maybe he could relate in Arabic a passage from the Qu'ran that would provide some perspective...<snarf>

It should be interesting. I wonder if the Chicago Tribune and the rest of the media will be able to re edit - make changes from what really happens in his video moment - so that it can be shown in the US without everyone in the US being disgusted?

so it won't be any secret.

Can you trust this imbicile to talk extemporainiously?
LIke this will fix it?

There are allot of leaks in this boat and more to come.

Condi, told al-Arabiya television in an interview.


"We came there to help to liberate the people of Iraq," she said. "We came there to build schools, and to build clinics and we want very much that the images of Americans should be the images of helping the Iraqi people."

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040504/pl_afp/us_iraq_prisoners_rice_040504221230

but he can't apologize to America for 9-11?

pResident who is never wrong going to APOLOGIZE? The man who has never made a mistake?

Ohh, sorry I forgot.

"The International Criminal Court is troubling to the United States," Bush told reporters following a tour at a Milwaukee church. "As the United States works to bring peace around the world, our diplomats and our soldiers could be drug into this court, and that's very troubling -- very troubling to me."

http://www.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/07/03/bush.international.court/

He has got to go. WORST PRESIDENT EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"Um, ah, um, um, ah, um, um, ah, 'pologize, um, ah, ah, um..." translate in Arabic?

to alzazeera ,i wonder why..who is doing the translation? will anyone listen or give a shit what he says? kinda sounds like those guys and gals who are guilty and breakdown and say they are sorry after they are sentenced for some horrible crime..sorry george, there is not one person in the rest of the world who believes you and remember there`s alot of people here that don`t believe you either...

. . . some sort of very carefully worded non-apology that totally denies any personal responsibility.

. . . some sort of very carefully worded non-apology that totally denies any personal responsibility.

is "damage control." These are the new buzz words. What do they mean "control"? The damage has already been done.

Al-jazeera would reach millions more that the other Arabic networks, but Bush can't go on al-jazeera because we banned it in Baghdad. These idiots are constantly bitten in the ass by their previous fuck ups.