Abu Ghraib general describes her Iraq tour

[brettdale]

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/entertainment/12491227.htm

Abu Ghraib general describes her Iraq tour


Iraqi prisoners could lift their cell doors right off their hinges. One senior sergeant whiled away his evenings blasting grazing sheep with a guard-tower machine gun. U.S. commanders didn't bother telling their troops they'd be stuck in Iraq for months more than advertised.

The only woman commanding general in the war zone, Abu Ghraib prison chief Janis Karpinski, has written a memoir of her fateful year there, a candid portrait of an often dysfunctional U.S. Army - of "Sergeant Bilko meets Catch 22," as she puts it.

The book, "One Woman's Army," published by Hyperion, sheds little new light on the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal, in which Karpinski, an Army Reserve brigadier general, was the highest-ranking officer punished, being relieved of her command, reprimanded and demoted to colonel.

Karpinski maintains she didn't know about the detainee torture and humiliation, that higher-ups encouraged the cruel treatment, and that male Army "Regulars" made her a scapegoat as a woman and a reservist.

[neweurope]

1. Most interesting I found the phrase about the sheep:

"One senior sergeant whiled away his evenings blasting grazing sheep with a guard-tower machine gun." Now that is certainly a way to win hearts and minds! Killing animals - cherished and economically important animals - for fun, just great!
:puke:

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[Mairead]

2. Not completely unlike the behavior of a certain Amon Göth

some time ago.

[neweurope]

3. ? Please explain - never heard of him.

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[Mairead]

4. He was the commandant of the Plaszow concentration camp

near Kraków. He used to sit on a little hill behind his house and with his rifle shoot prisoners in the camp.

Ralph Fienes played the role in the film 'Schindler's List'.

[neweurope]

5. Thank you.

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