Sunday, May 01, 2005

Pentagon Report On Abuse Has To Be Joke

TheBostonChannel.com - Helen Thomas - Pentagon Report On Abuse Has To Be Joke:Top Brass Exonerated; GIs Blamed | Helen Thomas, Hearst White House columnist | POSTED: 10:14 am EDT April 28, 2005

The Pentagon has got to be kidding.

It turns out that only those rogue enlisted men and women, and one woman general, are to blame for the horrifying treatment of prisoners and detainees of the Iraqi war, according to Lt. Gen. Stanley Green, the Army Inspector General.

He cleared four senior Army officers of any responsibility for the abuse of prisoners at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison after reviewing the results of 10 separate inquiries into the prison abuse, some of which the world was able to view though photos.

In effect, his report is the final word unless there are some brave members of Congress who are willing to investigate the role of the military higher-ups who gave the green light for the severe interrogation of prisoners in U.S. custody.
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Bush has piously stated that he was opposed to torture. Fine. But the proof of the pudding is for him to issue an executive order against torture and to announce that the U.S. will once again abide by the Geneva Conventions.

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