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Friday, 22 October 2004
quote [ I have always served my country well, even in Iraq - until we were transferred to Abu Ghraib and things got out of control. ]
20 years service, 8 years jail and a dishonorable discharge. It's your duty (and your turn) to take the rap for the US Army Corp!
The interview speaks for itself.
[politics] [by serenitynow@4:28pmGMT] [+10 Informative] |
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Fu Man Chu
said @ 4:42pm GMT on 22nd Oct
If the furthest they go up the chain of command is Staff Sergeant then we can all be fairly sure the real people pulling the strings on incedents like these are still roaming free. |
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k0k0peli
said @ 5:09pm GMT on 22nd Oct
I saw naked prisoners with their hands tied to the door. Sleep deprivation, withholding food, humiliating prisoners - those things were already routine at Abu Ghraib before I was transferred there... On the very first day, I asked a sergeant in military police company 372 why the prisoners were being treated that way. His answer was: That's the way the intelligence services do it. I heard a number of people say: "We don't waste a lot of time with them here. If they don't cooperate, we deal with them." Just routine. Nothing special here. Don't bother looking. Move on, move on. |
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vahid
said @ 5:19pm GMT on 22nd Oct
since the orders came from very high up, why is this guy one of a handful getting raked? |
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sensibleb
said @ 5:19pm GMT on 22nd Oct
[Score:1 Insightful]
Because the others are very high up. |
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vahid
said @ 5:21pm GMT on 22nd Oct
*slaps self upside the head* spit |
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Charmplus
said @ 5:51pm GMT on 22nd Oct
I didn't know anything about the Geneva Conventions. No one told me about them when I was in training. I just recently tried to find out about the Conventions on the internet. This is.. quite shocking. I was in Sweden this summer, and on my stay I had the pleasure of reading my brother's Swedish military training book from 1986 or so. In it, it thoroughly describes treatment of prisoners as per the Geneva Conventions and actually cites it. |
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mister
said @ 6:38pm GMT on 22nd Oct
God Bless America |
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klingon_fodder
said @ 4:26am GMT on 23rd Oct
any blessing would be inadequate - some scourging is in order |