Bush: Iraqi prisoner abuse on Arab TV

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Bush: Iraqi prisoner abuse on Arab TV
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Wed, 05-05-2004 - 10:17am
Should Bush apologize on Arab TV?
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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Registered: 05-10-2004
Tue, 05-11-2004 - 1:39pm
That's the most ridiculous statement I have read yet. You are acting as if G.W. himself and about 99% of the military abuses day in and day out all Iraqi's civilians and prisoners. Your attempt to exaggerate these few bad apples as if it were the whole US military and co. is down right ridiculous. Give me a break!
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Registered: 03-26-2003
Tue, 05-11-2004 - 1:40pm

You're barking up the wrong tree with WMD.

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Registered: 09-05-2003
Tue, 05-11-2004 - 1:41pm

And what's the difference between Ann Clwyd "believing" it may be true or inspectors "beliving" WOMD were being prepared in labs across Iraq? Why is it one sided to fit your sources that seem to you to be factual news links but any posted to support G. W. Bush or the administration or America in general seem to be passed off as just "propaganda"?? Funny isn't it? I have read too many posts about this one-sidedness and that's why I felt like responding. I know this isn't about WOMD but my point hopefully you can see here.


Yet we have just as many people doing the opposite.

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Registered: 03-23-2003
Tue, 05-11-2004 - 1:44pm

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.


What constant "America bashing"?


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Registered: 05-10-2004
Tue, 05-11-2004 - 1:44pm
The country made a mistake? I could have sworn it was a select few soldiers but your exaggerating to shove your points higher in our faces...tell me why all of sudden it went from 70% of prisoners to now 90%??
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Registered: 03-26-2003
Tue, 05-11-2004 - 1:48pm

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Had you bothered to read the links provided, you'd have seen that the estimates were 70% to 90%.


He didn't make anything up, you just have to read the links provided and not skim over them and then accuse people of making up the data that they're quoting.

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Registered: 04-05-2004
Tue, 05-11-2004 - 1:52pm
Prove that they have all been released. I don't believe it. I know that one was released. The one who was so traumatized that he now wants come to America to live.

Also, as far as I have read, all seven of the men were not put into this wing because of the uprising. Only a couple of them.

Where can I read the General's report?

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Registered: 05-10-2004
Tue, 05-11-2004 - 1:53pm
I am sorry but even if the US is obviously a higher power with higher standards still does not mean by any real means that a group as a whole will follow the rules every time. It is absolutely impossible . There isn't a perfect soul in the world and the US is no exception so I feel that this is a sad thing that happened and just because it wasn't dealt with under your terms or how you'd like it to be done, does not mean the President or America or the military are to blame. I think asking for the impossiblity of everyone following the rules is ignorant.
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Registered: 04-05-2004
Tue, 05-11-2004 - 1:55pm
I did address these things in another post. Did you not see it?
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Registered: 03-23-2003
Tue, 05-11-2004 - 1:57pm
Great post!

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