July 22, 2004


Sure, and I'm the frigging pope

The Army's investigator of abuse today decleared that there was not a pattern of abuse of detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan.

An Army investigation has concluded that the abuse of detainees in Afghanistan and Iraq was the result of individual acts of indiscipline, not of any systemic problem or flawed policy.

Lt. Gen. Paul T. Mikolashek, the Army's inspector general, told the Senate Armed Services Committee today that while his review of 94 confirmed cases of abuse found some "shortcomings and flaws," particularly in Army training of military police, overall there was no sign of a "pattern" of abuse that would suggest "any systemic failure."
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The Army's long-awaited conclusions supported statements by President Bush and top military officials, who have said the acts of mistreatment of prisoners were aberrations rather than the product of any policy, implicit or explicit, or of a culture in the Army.
So what color do you want that gallon of whitewash to be Mr. Preznit? Seriously, we're talking about a Preznit who took joy in stuffing firecrackers up frogs asses and branding the flesh of fellow fraternity members with a white-hot iron. Does it take a Charles Krauthammer to see that we've got one sick, twisted sadistic puppy in the White House and his kindred spirit running the Pentagram? Think not.

I guess a pattern would have involved incarerating and then raping children. Oh, my bad, that allegedly happened too.

posted by Jo Fish on 07.22.04 at 11:51 PM





Comments:

So the buck stops with the buck private.

 posted by: Shag from Brookline on 07.23.04 at 07:50 AM [permalink]

They might be able to pass that bullshit off on the average American Neo-Clown, but the rest of the world and the arab countries in particular see right through it. This malaise of "deny everything" has spread throughout this administration and into our military as well. Hell, if it works for the Commander in Thief why not the rest of his minions.

 posted by: Lowell on 07.23.04 at 08:51 AM [permalink]

"The buck stops waaaaaaaay over there somewhere. You can almost see it from here."

 posted by: Satan luvvs Repubs on 07.23.04 at 09:26 AM [permalink]

That'll win Bush some votes among military types.

I don't even blame those guys. Bush put them in a terrible situation, and they did the best they could.

posted by: Tony Goins on 07.23.04 at 11:54 AM [permalink]

They dumped this pile on the same day as the 9-11 Report, just before Congress goes into summer recess.

They claim that 94 incidents [note that Abu Graib is considered only one incident] in two countries doesn't indicate a pattern of behavior.

They have already relieved a Brig. General from her command, but this is the fault of the enlisted trash and low-level officers.

 posted by: Bryan on 07.23.04 at 01:52 PM [permalink]

17 prisons in Iraq, how many in Afghanistan? 50,000 prisoners, with terrible food and health conditions.

This 94 cases number is probably all they could document out of the nonredacted taguba report.

The Afghan torture crew of civilian American contractors is making a lot of noise abroad.

 posted by: Mr.Murder on 07.24.04 at 03:47 AM [permalink]


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