It looks like at least 30 more Americans, above and beyond the 7 “bad apples”, have now been implicated. And even Don Rumsfeld has been taken to task. And mind you, this<\/i> is a report by the Army<\/i> investigating itself<\/i>. So you can imagine how horrific and far reaching the real<\/i> story actually is.<\/p>\n
So, here’s a few items from the report that actually matter and that you may have missed:<\/p>\n
A long-awaited Army report released Wednesday implicates 27 members of a military intelligence unit in the alleged abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, well beyond the seven reservist military police already charged. <\/p>\n
…<\/p>\n[O]fficials did say Col. Thomas Pappas, who was the commander of the 205th Intelligence Brigade, could face criminal action.<\/p>\n[Lead investigator, Gen. Paul] Kern said four officers \u201cabove the rank of colonel\u201d face discipline for command failures at Abu Ghraib.<\/p>\n[T]he number of abuse incidents \u2014 they cited 44 cases \u2014 and types of abuse were greater than previously believed.<\/p>\n
Among the incidents: Guards and interrogators competed with dog teams to see which could more quickly make naked teenage prisoners lose control of their bowels and bladders.<\/p>\n
Military leaders, while \u201cnot directly responsible\u201d for the abuses, bear responsibility, Lt. Gen. Anthony Jones said.<\/p>\n
In addition to the abuse cases, Kern said investigators found eight cases in which prisoners were hidden from the International Red Cross, which monitored prison conditions. \u201cWe can’t tell you why,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
A sharply worded report issued Tuesday blamed top Pentagon officials, including Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, for creating conditions that led to abuse at the prison.<\/p><\/div>\n
Okay. Now go back to fighting over whether it was shrapnel or bullets that punctured the flesh of John Kerry 35 years ago while he volunteered to risk his life<\/i> for our country.<\/p>\n
Bush\/Cheney ’04: Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
(Blogged by Brad from the road…) If you only listen to Talk Radio (and occassionally catch a snippet of Fox News), you’d think the fact that the Bush campaign has finally found their very own “Willie Horton” distraction (Swifties for Bush) is the only news worth reporting. I’ve been away from newspapers and other sources […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=433"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}