Bush: Iraqi prisoner abuse on Arab TV
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| Wed, 05-05-2004 - 10:17am |
Bush to address Iraqi prisoner abuse on Arab TV.
President Bush will give interviews to two Arab television networks Wednesday about reports of U.S. military personnel abusing Iraqi prisoners, the White House said.
White House spokesman Scott McClellan said the 10-minute interviews with Al-Hurra, a U.S.-sponsored network, and Al Arabiya will take place about 10 a.m. ET (1400 GMT) in the Map Room at the White House.
"This is an opportunity for the president to speak directly to the people of Arab nations and let them know that the images that we all have seen are shameful and unacceptable," McClellan told reporters during a Bush campaign tour.
Referring to photographs that have surfaced showing Iraqi prisoners being abused McClellan said, "The images do not represent what America stands for, nor do they represent the high standards of conduct that the military is committed to uphold. The U.S. believes in treating all people with dignity and respect."
Asked why Bush would not meet with the Arab network Al-Jazeera, McClellan would only say the other two networks "reach a wide range of people in the Middle East."
McClellan said the actions of the accused soldiers at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq "do not represent what 99 percent of the men and women in the military stand for." (Full story)
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said Tuesday that he would take "all measures necessary" to ensure that abuse of detainees in Iraq "does not happen again."
Rumsfeld defended the Defense Department's handling of the matter in the face of congressional criticism, noting that a criminal investigation by the Army was under way and publicly disclosed three months before what he called "deeply disturbing" photographs were broadcast last week.
"This is a serious problem, and it's something the department is addressing," he said at a Pentagon news briefing. "The system works. The system works."
Rumsfeld said the criminal investigation was one of six launched since January.
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http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/05/05/iraq.abuse.main/index.html


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>""The next day , Gen. John Abizaid, commander of all U.S. forces in the region, was on the phone to Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld. 'General Abizaid informed the leadership within hours of the incident,' said a senior Pentagon official. Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt, the military's spokesman in Iraq, also called the Pentagon, though with more alarming words. 'He said, "We've got a really bad situation," recalled one official, who like others requested anonymity. 'The evidence is damaging and horrific,' 'We've got a really bad situation...'
I've just stated the truth. Isn't the truth bad enough? Why would you want it to be worse than it really is?
My beef is the constant America bashing and extreme sympathy for the insurgents. I didn't see the same amount of AMERICAN sympathy for our own countrymen and I find THAT disgusting.
Just where does your stop hating start?
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Gee, you must be privy to information that the US military isn't privy to, because according to the US Army, more than 70% of the detainees in that ONE prison were detained "by accident."
Gee...maybe they were just innocent citizens of Iraq who ALSO needed to be liberated but instead found themselves victimized by the very people who claim to want to liberate them.
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All I can do is LMAO at this!
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Then how do you explain the US military's comment that 70% of the people who went through that prison system were there INCORRECTLY?
And the bit about the 70 year old woman is contained in the US Military's report too.
Placing your hands over your ears and screaming LALALALALALALALA won't make any of it less true, either.
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And I don't even believe that the military "commented" that 70% of the people in the other side were there incorrectly. Please prove it. Also, please prove the part about the seventy year old woman. I want to see non-biased sources with witnesses who are not "unnamed".
minnie
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