Word: ghraib
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...report released last week places a share of the responsibility for the mistreatment of inmates at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison on the shoulders of U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. Though the report didn't single him out by name or call for his resignation, it concludes that a combination of too many prisoners and too few guards--as well as a confusing chain of command--generated a climate ripe for trouble that the Pentagon's leadership should have anticipated. In the report, Rumsfeld's own specially appointed panel, headed by former Defense Secretary James Schlesinger, blames Rumsfeld...
...American retreat from Fallujah--a city that has subsequently become a miniature rogue state within Iraq--or about the mystifying, flip-floppy U.S. attitude toward the Shi'ite revolutionary Muqtada al-Sadr. Kerry hasn't said whether he thinks Bush Administration policy was responsible for the torture at Abu Ghraib. He has mentioned--but hasn't really exploited--the growing sense in the military and intelligence communities that the war has strengthened Islamist radicalism, overburdened the U.S. military, and made it far more difficult to rally the world against the nuclear threats from North Korea and Iran...
...just for fun, kind of venting their frustration." PAUL ARTHUR, U.S. Army investigator, testifying at a hearing for U.S. Private Lynndie England on what motivated soldiers to abuse Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib...
...amazes me that American journalists are about as shocked over the continuing disclosures of torture as Claude Rains was over the gambling at Humphrey Bogart's joint in Casablanca back in the halcyon days of American idealism [June 21]. It's obvious that what went on in Abu Ghraib and Guant?namo was not the result of the actions of a few bad apples of inferior rank but a calculated policy formed in the upper reaches of the Bush Administration. How did we sink so low? Liberals and conservatives alike shudder as they contemplate this betrayal of American values. Hal Barwood...
...face a stiff challenge in elections expected next year. Political pressure may also be building in Poland, a staunch ally that contributed 2,500 troops to the occupation. Opposition there to the Iraqi deployment rose from less than 30% after the fall of Baghdad to 75% after the Abu Ghraib prison scandal...