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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Land Shark who wrote (12427)	5/9/2004 10:44:07 PM
From: Doug R	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

What is becoming clearer is that this was policy. A policy which was directed from the Pentagon and may well wind up in the Vice President's office. After all, the Secretary of State said there were problems with our Iraqi penal colonies and he was ignored. Now Rumsfeld may think the sun shines on his ass, but *that kind of disregard had to have support from higher up.* Anytime someone complained, they were blown off by the DOD's civilian chiefs. Besides being arrogant and stupid, there has to be political support to keep blowing off complaints about something so basic. This is what DOD (did) in the months before January's release of the pictures: * Ignored several NGO reports about abuse in the Iraqi penal colony system. Including several secret Red Cross reports. * Refused to allow Indiana Congressman and Army Reserve Colonel Steve Buyer to take over the unit at Abu Ghraib. * Ignore the report by MG Ryder, the Army Provost Marshal, about conditions at Abu Ghraib. * Ignore other reports about abusive conditions in our Iraqi penal colony. How could the civilian leadership at DOD ignore all these reports streaming in without political support from the White House. Maybe Bush was ignorant of this, but does anyone believe the now silent Dick Cheney wasn't. Rumsfeld and his people have a direct line to Cheney. How was he kept in the dark? Bush is a loose manager, but Cheney is a control freak. While there may never be record of a conversation between Rumsfeld and Cheney to ignore this, Cheney is obsessed with not only the war, but with proving a Saddam-Al Qaeda link. Much of the expediency permitted by Rumsfeld was endorsed and encouraged by Cheney. This was not isolated abberations but a planned way to get information from people, regardless of the law or common sense. This wasn't dreamed up by privates or contractors, but had to be permitted from the highest reaches of the civilian leadership. stevegilliard.blogspot.com