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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: TimF who wrote (199953)9/3/2004 12:40:53 PM
From: combjelly   of 1574122
 
"but it didn't and shouldn't just because some soldier or bureaucrat does something illegal or against policy."

That is true. The problem is, Abu Ghraib wasn't just a couple of bored soldiers entertaining themselves in creative ways. The problem is/was systematic. There were doctors treating victims of abuse and neglecting to record the events. The prison was set up so that Gen. Karpinsky didn't even have access to certain parts of the prison. There were people totally out of the chain of command, like civilian contractors, that were given free reign inside. All of this set against a backdrop of an administration that investigated ways by which torture and circumventing the Geneva Conventions can be done legally. These are things that resulted from policy. Policy that was set at above the squad level...
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