NYT- Pentagon Was Blindsided by Bush Pledge to Raze Prison

ASHINGTON, May 26 — On Monday night, President Bush made the dramatic announcement that the United States would demolish Abu Ghraib prison and build a modern maximum-security center in Baghdad to replace it. But on Wednesday, Pentagon officials said the president's words had taken them by surprise, and they scrambled without success to come up with details of the plan.

"This office was not aware of any plans to raze Abu Ghraib or build another prison," said a Pentagon spokesman who insisted that he not be identified because he did not want to be seen as contradicting the president.

A senior Pentagon official said that any plans would have to be discussed with a new Iraqi government, as Mr. Bush himself stipulated in his announcement, and that in any case razing the prison could not happen quickly.

"It's just an idea the president came up with," the official said. "The Iraqis could decide they don't want to tear it down. It's not ours to tear down. It will be some time before I can give you the kind of details you want."

A White House official said Wednesday that it had been Mr. Bush's idea to insert the prison announcement into his speech Monday, at the United States Army War College in Carlisle, Pa., where he outlined his strategy for handing over power to a new Iraqi government by June 30. The official said Mr. Bush discussed the idea last week with his war cabinet and with L. Paul Bremer III, the American administrator in Iraq.

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more: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/27/politics/27PRIS.html

Wouldn't it be better to use the same money to build new schools in Iraq or even here at home? This administration is so full of shit it makes you want to :puke:

...Abu Ghraib razed?

http://electroniciraq.net/news/1518.shtml

in a dream, or an alcohol fueled delusion. Seriously, I bet * thinks the prison is haunted or something. What a maroon.

NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW.

May 6 -

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A bipartisan group of senators is urging the Pentagon to demolish the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq in order to exorcise a symbol of both Saddam Hussein's torture chambers and an embarrassing episode for the U.S. military.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/05/05/congress.abuse/

maybe they expected the dogs to eat it along with the 2,000 pages?

Abugah-rayp, um... Abu-garon, um... no, I mean Abu-garah.

Just think... it would be super cool to push a button and make a big boom sound and then see the walls crumbling down. And now the Pentagon is telling us they know nothing about this and it is up to the Iraqi people to decide the future of the prison? Man, * must be pretty bummed. The Pentagon wants to take away all his fun.

We knew by mid-afternoon that W was planning to make this announcement that night.

Oh, by the way, does this count has another major flip flop?

The plan was to build a new one first then demolish the old one.

A new building is going to make people forget that it replaces an old one?

Man, this dimwit is such an emberassment.

evidence!

First, * has NO vision.
Then, * steals some notion.
and finally, * goes for a cheap potion.

After all I've heard from * about terra! terra! terra!,including the latest Abu Terra, I have concluded (with apologies to Capt. Rhett and Ms. Scarlett) that "frankly, * DON'T GIVE A DAMN."
:mad:

junior's history.