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To: Orcastraiter who wrote (8044)	5/22/2004 10:58:01 PM
From: Augustus Gloop	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

<<It's likely that there will be a cover up of the highest order...I'll bet that Sivits was told to shut up and everything will work out just ducky.>> Nope....thats a conspiracy theory, gland breath

To: Orcastraiter who wrote (8044)	5/23/2004 2:44:26 AM
From: Orcastraiter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

Friends: Sivits Is Abuse Scapegoat May 20, 2004 HYNDMAN, Pa. - Army Spc. Jeremy Sivits' guilty plea Wednesday to charges of mistreating Iraqi prisoners was met with anger and disbelief in his hometown, where friends allege he was accepting blame that truly rests with his superiors. Yellow ribbons and a poster reading "Jeremy Sivits, our hometown hero" were put up near Sivits' home in Hyndman, where more than 200 residents held a candlelight vigil in support of the reservist Tuesday night. Sivits took photos of the abuse and humiliation of inmates at Abu Ghraib prison. He cooperated with Army prosecutors in Baghdad and pleaded guilty to lesser charges than those lodged against some of his colleagues at the prison. Sivits received a maximum one year in prison and a bad conduct discharge. "I feel he's been bargained with to plead this way. I feel he was forced to take the brunt of this," said Jamey Ringler, Sivits' former baseball coach and best man at his wedding. "He's intelligent enough to know he's in a no-win situation so he went ahead and agreed with it." Those who know Sivits demanded that President Bush hold the soldier's superiors accountable in the prison-abuse scandal. "If Bush is the Christian man that he claims he is, then (the soldiers implicated) should either be pardoned or he should take the whole bunch to task," said the Rev. Mark Blair, pastor of the United Methodist Church in Hyndman, about 80 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. Thomas V. Cunningham, the former mayor of Hyndman, had hoped Sivits wouldn't accept anything other than an honorable discharge. "Everybody on the street knows he's the sacrificial lamb," Cunningham said. Blair said he had hoped Sivits would get a lesser sentence, contending the soldier wouldn't have taken part in the abuse "unless he was told." "He was never a leader. He was a follower," Blair said. Sivits' parents had no comment Wednesday as they left the house to eat breakfast at a diner. But Sivits' father, Daniel, made a brief statement Tuesday night. "I want to make explicitly clear, Jeremy, no matter what, is still my son. We still love him," the father said. "I am a veteran of the Vietnam War and I want to say one thing - Jeremy is always a vet in my heart and in my mind." military.com Orca