Abu Ghraib General Says Told Prisoners 'Like Dogs'

[No2W2004]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&ncid=578&e=2&u=/nm/20040615/ts_nm/iraq_abuse_karpinski_dc

Janis Karpinski, the one-star general responsible for the military police who ran prisons in Iraq when pictures were taken showing prisoners being abused, said she and her soldiers were being made scapegoats for abuse ordered by others.

In the interview with Britain's BBC radio, Karpinski said Geoffrey Miller, a two-star general sent to Iraq from the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, had ordered new procedures in cell blocs where Iraqis were interrogated.

"He said, at Guantanamo Bay we've learned that the prisoners have to earn every single thing they have," Karpinski said.

"He said they are like dogs, and if you allow them to believe at any point they are more than a dog then you've lost control of them."

[sui generis]

1. what do they have against dogs?

I personally don't shave dogs naked, make them simulate sex acts and/or humiliate them to death, mostly with my blue gloved fists, nor hook up electrodes to their genitals.

Let's be frank -- these guys did something that NOT EVEN a wild animal would do to another animal, ever, under any imaginable circumstance. It takes a human to do it.

[Az]

2. Gee its not like we didn't say the cages looked like kennels

One of the agenda's they seem to have had with this little war was to experiment with what sort of torture they could get away with. Guantanamo was set up as a torture facility to experiment from day one. Bush has to leave the WH before Jan 1.

[FloridaPat]

3. She also said the prison were run by the military intellegence.

Those people keep getting mentioned everywhere but on the list of those arrested for abuse.