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To: Amy J who wrote (188493)	5/13/2004 7:15:03 AM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1570958

Amy, re: Giving suggestive directions, while intentionally not specifying those directions (or conveniently leaving them ambiguous), is the way sleazy people put the wool over the eyes of the judicial system (and Congress too). It is disappointing to see sleazyness win vs obeying the spirit of the law. It's corrupting the system. It started when Rummy said the Geneva Conventions didn't necessarily apply to the "war" on terror. The military (and Bush) don't handle nuance very well, things need to be spelled out very precisely. That's why the military has all those layers of command; if private enterprise were run with all those layers they would never get anything done. And there is the secrecy code. You don't tell on your buddy, we're all in this together, protect my back and I'll protect yours. It works well in battle situations. But it doesn't work well in the current situation; nation building. At least that's the way I see it. Good op-ed piece about why Rummy should go in today's WSJ; not because of the prison abuse issue, but because he has miscalculated virtually every aspect of "post-war" Iraq. Acording to the original plan, by the end of this year we would be down to 30K troops and Iraqi oil would be paying for the reconstruction. LOL. This episode is one of the worst miscalculations in military/political history. John

To: Amy J who wrote (188493)	5/14/2004 2:08:03 AM
From: Amy J	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570958

Thread, "why didn't the media disclose this information earlier, before it escalated into a horrible state? " My error. Apparently they did, but it took pictures to make clear what was going on: story.news.yahoo.com CNN Pentagon (news - web sites) reporter Barbara Starr, who reported on the alleged abuse at least four times before the pictures came out, (but) .... "it didn't become a big story until people could see these virtually pornographic images." Like many newspapers, the News-Sun in Springfield, Ohio wrote little about the charges until there were pictures, said editor Karla Garrett Harshaw. "When you see those images, it just has a different feel," Harshaw said. "It evokes more emotion because you see it. (You think) my goodness, how could they do that?" -------------------------------------------- When they didn't have photos, they should have used historical photos to depict the issue from other scenes in history, to drive the point through. Regards, Amy J