The Truth About Abu Ghraib

[tavalon]

Finally an article that mentions the obvious. The atrocities committed at Abu Ghraib were not done by low level freelancers but was directed from on high.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/28/AR2005072801745.html

[SpiralHawk]

1. "...glaringly at odd with known facts..."

From the Post article

"FOR 15 MONTHS now the Bush administration has insisted that the horrific photographs of abuse from the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq were the result of freelance behavior by low-level personnel and had nothing to do with its policies.

"In this the White House has been enthusiastically supported by the Army brass, which has conducted investigations documenting hundreds of cases of prisoner mistreatment in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, but denies that any of its senior officers are culpable. For some time these implacable positions have been glaringly at odds with the known facts. In the past few days, those facts have grown harder to ignore."

[springhill]

8. Accept that it's happening?

Oh my God, Bush is encouraging it to happen!

[NMDemDist2]

2. kicked and nominated n/t

[EFerrari]

3. ditto nt

[indepat]

4. The obvious conclusion is those who directed torture from on high like it

[Burried News]

5. Warner you are a disgrace. Post nails you again.

"The White House and Pentagon have gotten away with their stonewalling largely because of Republican control of Congress. When the Abu Ghraib scandal erupted, GOP leaders such as Sen. John W. Warner (Va.) loudly vowed to get to the bottom of the matter -- but once the bottom started to come into view late last year, Mr. Warner's demands for accountability ceased. Mr. Rumsfeld and other senior officials have never been the subject of an independent investigation.
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Attempts by the White House and Mr. Warner to block or gut the legislation failed, and on Tuesday the GOP leadership pulled the defense bill from the floor rather than allow a vote. The administration probably will spend the next month trying to quell this rebellion of conscience and good sense. The nation would be better served if President Bush instead accepted, at last, the truth about Abu Ghraib."

[Burried News]

6. Warner, Roberts and Hatch.

[Kurovski]

7. This must be repeated over and over to counter

the oft repeated lie that it was a handful of bad apples responsible for the abuses.

[Burried News]

9. Taguba Report as released to the ACLU

Large file with hypertext links to testimony of individuals - addendum is at the bottom and almost everything is linked.
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB140/index.htm

[ecdab]

10. Anybody, what is the status on the latest batch of Abu Ghraib

photos? I haven't seen anything since the GOPpers filled an 11th hour motion to stop their release a number of days ago. Has anything happened since then?