I heard she was! Damn I hope not, we have enough crosses to bear already! I know we have some Ps from WV in Iraq, or did have! If she was, get ready for a new round of Wv jokes! I'm sickened by those photos and I wrote Senators Byrd and Rockefeller about them! I wish you'd all take the time to do the same! Here's what I wrote them::::::::::::
Senator ______;
I would like to call this article in the 'New Yorker' to your attention!
TORTURE AT ABU GHRAIB
by SEYMOUR M. HERSH
American soldiers brutalized Iraqis. How far up does the responsibility go?
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?040510fa_fact "How far up does the responsibility go?" is exactly what congress should look into ASAP. I can't believe my tax dollars are funding these awful things! Public Congressional hearings on this matter with all the witnesses UNDER OATH should be demanded! "This Aggression should not stand!"
How can we EVER expect to settle anything in Iraq with these types of things going on?
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"At the Article 32 hearing, the Army informed Frederick and his attorneys, Captain Robert Shuck, an Army lawyer, and Gary Myers, a civilian, that two dozen witnesses they had sought, including General Karpinski and all of Frederick’s co-defendants, would not appear. Some had been excused after exercising their Fifth Amendment right; others were deemed to be too far away from the courtroom. “The purpose of an Article 32 hearing is for us to engage witnesses and discover facts,” Gary Myers told me. “We ended up with a c.i.d. agent and no alleged victims to examine.” After the hearing, the presiding investigative officer ruled that there was sufficient evidence to convene a court-martial against Frederick."
This does not sound at all like Bush and Friends are willing to conduct an honest investigation on this horrid matter! Congress should DEMAND some answers! Congress should DEMAND that the witnesses be examined in a public hearing! Are we a civilized nation, or have we become like the Nazis we defeated, or thought we defeated, in WW II? Does Congress not have any oversight over Rumsfield's Army anymore?
Sincerely;