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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend.... -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Sully- who wrote (2482)	5/16/2004 8:56:35 AM
From: abstract	Read Replies (7) \| Respond to of 35834

Someone is obviously living in Fairyland. CNN reports: The Abu Ghraib prison scandal was the result of a decision by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to expand a clandestine operation against al Qaeda to the treatment of prisoners in Iraq, according to a report in The New Yorker by journalist Seymour Hersh. The Pentagon sharply denied the allegations, calling them "outlandish, conspiratorial, and filled with error and anonymous conjecture." Further: From MSNBC (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4988252/): (This doesn't sound like the liberal press to me.) Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) expressed skepticism during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing last Tuesday, for example, that a group of military police from rural Maryland and West Virginia "would have chosen bizarre sexual humiliations that were specifically designed to be offensive to Muslim men [as the photos depicted]. . . . It implies too much knowledge. . . . And that is why, even though I do not yet have the evidence, I cannot help but suspect that others were involved." . . . Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) expressed similar concerns last week. "On the surface, you could portray the 800th MP Brigade as a Reserve unit with poor leadership and poor training," he told top Army officials at the hearing last week. "However, the abuse of prisoners is not merely the failure of an MP brigade; it's a failure of the chain of command." . . Care to predict where this ends up?