The Army's little mess in Iraq has become a real pressure cooker. And General Karpinski isn't going to cover for sack-o-shit Miller. The irony of bringing Miller from Guantanamo to oversee the prisons in Iraq after the Abu Ghraib photo scandal broke has just been underscored.
Gen Karpinski repeated that she knew nothing of the humiliation and torture of Iraq prisoners that was going on inside Abu Ghraib - she was made a scapegoat.
...She said current Iraqi prisons chief Maj Gen Geoffrey Miller - who was in charge at Guantanamo Bay - visited her in Baghdad and said: "At Guantanamo Bay we learned that the prisoners have to earn every single thing that they have."
"He said they are like dogs and if you allow them to believe at any point that they are more than a dog then you've lost control of them."
BBC article
...She said current Iraqi prisons chief Maj Gen Geoffrey Miller - who was in charge at Guantanamo Bay - visited her in Baghdad and said: "At Guantanamo Bay we learned that the prisoners have to earn every single thing that they have."
"He said they are like dogs and if you allow them to believe at any point that they are more than a dog then you've lost control of them."
First Sanchez. Now Miller. I wonder if the Senate committee will haul their asses back in to explain why they lied, under oath, at their hearing.
But, while we're on the subject, let's have a look at Karpinski's statements.
May 25:
About two months after the Red Cross warned US commanders of widespread prisoner abuses, the commanding general at the Abu Ghraib prison assured the Red Cross in a confidential letter that Iraqi detainees were being given the best treatment possible and that even more ''improvements are continually being made."
In an interview yesterday, however, Brigadier General Janis Karpinski insisted she was ''set up" by Army officials who had her sign the letter when she really had no idea of the depth of the problems uncovered at the now-infamous prison outside Baghdad.
Boston.com article
In an interview yesterday, however, Brigadier General Janis Karpinski insisted she was ''set up" by Army officials who had her sign the letter when she really had no idea of the depth of the problems uncovered at the now-infamous prison outside Baghdad.
June 15:
“The interrogation operation was directed; it was under a separate command and there was no reason for me to go out to look at Abu Ghraib at cell block 1a or 1b or visit the interrogation facilities.”
She said was unaware until November that the International Committee of the Red Cross had visited the jail and expressed concerns about detainees' treatment to U.S. officials. She said she did not see the abuse photos — believed to have been taken late last year — until late January.
“I didn't know in September, I didn't know in October, I didn't know ever” about any abuse, she said.
“Those pictures which I saw on the 23rd of January were more shocking to me than probably the rest of the world ... I was absolutely sickened by those images and I couldn't even fathom a guess as to what happened to these people to make them go in such an opposite direction of how they were trained.”
Globe and Mail article
She said was unaware until November that the International Committee of the Red Cross had visited the jail and expressed concerns about detainees' treatment to U.S. officials. She said she did not see the abuse photos — believed to have been taken late last year — until late January.
“I didn't know in September, I didn't know in October, I didn't know ever” about any abuse, she said.
“Those pictures which I saw on the 23rd of January were more shocking to me than probably the rest of the world ... I was absolutely sickened by those images and I couldn't even fathom a guess as to what happened to these people to make them go in such an opposite direction of how they were trained.”
She couldn't fathom a reason, even though in the same interview she says Miller told her to treat the prisoners like dogs.
She's a liar like the others. If she wasn't complicit intentionally, she was complicit by virtue of non-diligence in the performance of her duties. Why would you sign a letter to the Red Cross concerning a matter you were not informed about?
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
