Bush promised a "full accounting" for "cruel and disgraceful abuse of Iraqi detainees." He said the treatment is an "insult to the Iraqi people" and an "affront to the most basic standards of morality and decency." He said those involved will "answer for their conduct in an orderly and transparent process."
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Now that the curtain hiding them has been torn.
As for those responsible, Mr. Bush said, "there will be an investigation, and they'll be taken care of."
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Mr Bush said that, in democracies, mistakes were made but: "There will be investigations, people will be brought to justice."
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Now that the story went video? Or maybe the justice will be similar to that previously meted out:
The torture and sadism at the Abu Ghraib prison were spawned at another Iraqi jail called Camp Bucca.
...Some of the U.S. soldiers who were photographed sexually humiliating prisoners at deposed dictator Saddam Hussein's most notorious prison were also at Camp Bucca last year, when the facility was rocked by allegations that detainees were beaten.
But instead of throwing the book at the four soldiers caught abusing Iraqi detainees, the military gave them the boot with less-than-honorable discharges, according to a scathing report into the shocking sadism prepared by Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba.
Their commanding officer, Lt. Col. Jerry Phillabaum, was transferred to Abu Ghraib...
...Phillabaum, commander of the 320th Military Police Battalion, based in Ashley, Pa., faces official reprimands for what Taguba called his "extremely ineffective" leadership.
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...Some of the U.S. soldiers who were photographed sexually humiliating prisoners at deposed dictator Saddam Hussein's most notorious prison were also at Camp Bucca last year, when the facility was rocked by allegations that detainees were beaten.
But instead of throwing the book at the four soldiers caught abusing Iraqi detainees, the military gave them the boot with less-than-honorable discharges, according to a scathing report into the shocking sadism prepared by Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba.
Their commanding officer, Lt. Col. Jerry Phillabaum, was transferred to Abu Ghraib...
...Phillabaum, commander of the 320th Military Police Battalion, based in Ashley, Pa., faces official reprimands for what Taguba called his "extremely ineffective" leadership.
Wooooo. Official reprimand. And then to which prison do we send him?
"We will do to ourselves what we expect of others." -- George W. Bush
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Can the others get that in writing? What we "do to ourselves" might then prove a useful guideline.
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
