Remember the Torture?

This is via Suburban Guerrilla and it is a must read ... command both civilian and military knew what was going on ... the end does not justify the means ... we are a moral soceity or we are not ... you can not be moral just when you feel like it ...go read it all ...

Inside Abu Ghraib

By Susie on The Regime

Here’s a real eyeopener of an interview with Gen. Janice Karpinski, who was in charge of Abu Ghraib. There are far too many points to quote, so be sure to read the whole thing:

“It was a memorandum signed by Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, authorizing a short list, maybe 6 or 8 techniques: use of dogs; stress positions; loud music; deprivation of food; keeping the lights on, those kinds of things,” Karpinski said. “And then a handwritten message over to the side that appeared to be the same handwriting as the signature, and that signature was Secretary Rumsfeld’s. And it said, ‘Make sure this happens’ with two exclamation points. And that was the only thing they had. Everything else had been confiscated.”

Karpinski tried to get information, but “nobody knew anything, nobody – at least, that’s what they were claiming. The Company Commander, Captain Reese, was tearful in my office and repeatedly told me he knew nothing about it, knew nothing about it,” Karpinski said. But in a later plea bargain he entered into after the Taguba Report came out, “Captain Reese said that not only did he know about it, but he was told not to report it to his chain of command, and he was told that by Colonel Pappas. And he claimed that he saw General Sanchez out there on several occasions witnessing the torture of some of the security detainees.”

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