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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Tue, 05-11-2004 - 2:34pm
Let's see you do a better job! Everyone is so quick to criticize the job someone is doing when they have no clue as to what it actually takes to do that job.
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Tue, 05-11-2004 - 2:42pm
Sickening, isn't it?
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Tue, 05-11-2004 - 2:48pm

<<<Prove that they have all been released. I don't believe it. >>>


As I said before, you can choose to believe whatever you want - whatever helps you to live in your world.


What would you like me to produce for you - their release papers?

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Tue, 05-11-2004 - 2:50pm
ROFLMAO!

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Tue, 05-11-2004 - 2:53pm

Not me - I don't believe in some entity that sets up mankind for every fall it's ever taken.


God is nothing more than science FICTION at it's finest.

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Tue, 05-11-2004 - 2:54pm

<<<Then I'd like it if you wouldn't accuse me of something I didn't do either. i never accused him of making up anything. Thanks! I was commenting on his exaggerating in regards to the quantity of those who abused the Iraqi's.>>>


ROFL!

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Registered: 04-05-2004
Tue, 05-11-2004 - 2:55pm
Maybe I'm just stupid because I did a Google search before I asked this question. I got nothing.

I also could find nothing saying that all of the prisoners had been released. I will be forced to believe that your sources are less than trustworthy if you refuse to produce them.

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Tue, 05-11-2004 - 2:57pm
I will pray for you.
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Tue, 05-11-2004 - 2:58pm

And it's being reported too.

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Tue, 05-11-2004 - 3:02pm

<<<Let's see you do a better job! Everyone is so quick to criticize the job someone is doing when they have no clue as to what it actually takes to do that job.>>>


Been there, done that, have the awards, decorations and medals to prove it.


16 years active duty in military intelligence, 8 years reserve duty in civil affairs.


Next attack?

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