"Some People Do Bad Things"

[babylonsister]

http://washingtonindependent.com/view/some-people-do-bad

"Some People Do Bad Things"
By Spencer Ackerman 07/15/2008 12:50PM

After going back and forth with Feith -- in which Feith conceded there were indeed abuses in Defense Dept. detention and interrogation operations -- Rep. Bobby Scott (D.-Va) asked why the abusers might think they could torture detainees. "I don't believe they necessarily did think they did" have authority to torture, Feith said. "Some people do bad things."

A former Human Rights First attorney, Deborah Perlstein, gently read into the record the testimony of a Chief Warrant Officer tried for murder at Abu Ghraib. The individual in question said that he thought he was allowed to suffocate a detainee in a sack because of "a memo written by Gen. Sanchez," the U.S. commander in Iraq from 2003 to 2004, who in September 2003 accepted a series of suggestions from Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller, then the Guantanamo commander, to "Gitmo-ize" Abu Ghraib. Miller's trip to see Sanchez, of course, occurred on behalf of and with the full knowledge of the Defense Dept.

"I don't think there's a dispute that people misbehaved," Feith said defiantly.

[Solly Mack]

1. I know! He equated torturing people with misbehaving

I watched it. I heard the fuckwad say it.

[elehhhhna]

2. war crime = misbehavior ? Biggest . Understatement. Ever.

[Javaman]

3. “the fucking stupidest guy on the planet”, said Gen. Tommy Franks in regard to D. Feith. nt

[Greyhound]

4. Our only hope now is that the world delivers the hundreds of indictments,

through the ICC, and force these assholes into the role of international refugee from justice. They will have to stay here or in a few rogue states like Dubai for the rest of their miserable lives.