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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: Duncan Baird who started this subject5/9/2004 1:57:01 PM
From: boris_a  Read Replies (2) of 1575406
 
Darn the bad luck!

"Soldiers' warnings ignored
Failures: The blame for what happened at Abu Ghraib goes far beyond the military police, intelligence soldiers say."

baltimoresun.com

"They said in interviews Friday and yesterday that the abuses were not caused by a handful of rogue soldiers poorly supervised and lacking morals but resulted from failures that went beyond the low-ranking military police charged with abuse.

The beatings, the two soldiers said, were meted out with the full knowledge of intelligence interrogators, who let military police know which prisoners were cooperating with them and which were not.
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"We weren't at the other holding areas, so I don't want to say for sure the same thing was going on at them," said the other soldier, both of whom are in their 20s. "But it was going on there. The guys doing the interrogating, the MPs, they were all the same guys, going one place to the other. We were the standard on how to treat the prisoners."
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If two specialists could see how serious it was, how come nobody else could?"
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And the President: "The abuses were the work of a few"
He spends too much time cutting wood. He should hire someone reading from the newspapers and helping to understand the phrases.
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