Hey - Good News - the Abu Ghraib abuse stopped FOUR days ago...

Junkdrawer

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Tue May-04-04 01:31 PM
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Hey - Good News - the Abu Ghraib abuse stopped FOUR days ago...

Edited on Tue May-04-04 01:32 PM by Junkdrawer

The military's new commander at Abu Ghraib prison said Tuesday he had halted "aberrant" practices that led to allegations of humiliating and degrading abuse of Iraqi prisoners at the facility. "Ladies and gentlemen, we have changed this, trust us, we are doing this right," said Maj. Gen. Geoffrey D. Miller, who stepped into his new position about a month ago, of the new interrogation process for Iraqi prisoners. Miller said that U.S. personnel stopped using hoods and sleep depravation on Iraqi detainees four days ago.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/05/04/iraq.abuse.main/index.html

Let's see, the abuse was known last fall, Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba's report was out in February, the 60 Minutes II piece was going to air April 21th (but was stopped by Gen. Myers who DIDN'T read the Taguba report), and the abuse finally stops four fucking days ago.

Tell me again how "outraged" this administration is about the abuse.

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DrWeird

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Tue May-04-04 01:39 PM
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1. Oh well, if they say they stopped torturing...

who are we to disbelieve torturers?

Are they letting in the Red Cross yet?

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Sparkly

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Tue May-04-04 01:41 PM
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3. But Rummy said today it wasn't torture.

"Abuse," maybe, but not torture. That should make everybody feel better, huh?

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Junkdrawer

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Tue May-04-04 01:47 PM
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5. From a Guardian story..

Mr Salem said he had been in the jail shortly before a visit from the International Red Cross in January. Until then, detainees in the prison wing had been kept naked.

"The night before the Red Cross arrived, the American soldiers gave them some new clothes. They told us that if we complained to the Red Cross about our treatment we would be kept in prison forever. They said they would never let us out."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1208408,00.html

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damnraddem

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Tue May-04-04 01:41 PM
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2. Oh, they're very outraged by the abuse -- meaning by 'abuse' ...

photographs and media reports on the torture they ordered.

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central scrutinizer

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Tue May-04-04 01:46 PM
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4. more evidence here

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4855930

including this admission that * knew back in January:

"White House press secretary Scott McClellan said Tuesday that Bush learned of the allegations sometime after the Defense Department began its investigation in late January and first saw graphics pictures of the alleged abuse when they became public last week."

Just like with Plame, Medicare, etc., secrecy is what this maladministration is all about - keep it hidden and hope that nobody finds out.

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Junkdrawer

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Tue May-04-04 01:53 PM
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6. Bush needs an Under Secretary of Classics Illustrated....

If it's just words on a page, it didn't happen.

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