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: 03-26-2003
Tue, 05-11-2004 - 4:14pm

I meant that he made a choice, one that isn't similar to any choices that the Iraqi prisoners OR American soldiers had.

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Registered: 04-05-2004
Tue, 05-11-2004 - 4:19pm
Unbelievable. The cold blooded brutal murder of one of your countrymen is more acceptable to you than the embarrassment of some America-hating insurgents.
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Registered: 08-03-2003
Tue, 05-11-2004 - 4:53pm
People responsible for the mistreatment of the Iraqi prisoners???

The bloody morons who participated in the entire acts...

ie. Miss Lindy England.

What a sad American...

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Registered: 03-23-2003
Tue, 05-11-2004 - 5:47pm

Excuse me?


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Registered: 03-27-2003
Tue, 05-11-2004 - 7:25pm
Good point. Bush should apologize, then get out. But for those killed, no apology is sufficient. The US demanded the capture and imprisonment of Saddam for his atrocities, I say the same for Bush.
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Registered: 03-27-2003
Tue, 05-11-2004 - 7:42pm
Are you serious? You don't believe that Bush or Rumsfeld should be held accountable for the actions of their underlings? Use a little historical perspective and apply the same reasoning to Hitler or his henchmen. Then read what information is available regarding the laws governing the prisoners in Guantanamo. Browse through the legal manouverings of why this current government has purposely chosen not to abide by the Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War of 12 August 1947 (the Third Geneva Convention III). Might I suggest reading a Lecture by Johan Steyn, visiting law professor, found at http://www.fcnl.org/civil_liberties/guantanamo.htm

Their justification for circumventing laws already in place gives ample room for "individual interpretation" of human rights. The prisoners in Iraq fell victim to soldiers and officers there having no clear mandate regarding prisoner rights or treatment. That responsibility falls clearly at the feet of Rumsfeld and then Bush as his commanding officer.

Explain to me one more time why you think the US prison guards in Iraq should be the only ones to be held responsible for sloppy thinking from the President and his advisers.

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Tue, 05-11-2004 - 8:21pm
"God Bless President Bush"!!!!!! For what? Destabalising the world. Have you asked your self WHY, so many hate America? Do please read your history books! Why was Iraq invaded? Could it be anything to do with OIL? Has Iraq got those elusive weapons of mass destruction? Well if they have, they are probably the same ones that America gave to them, to use against Iran all those years ago! Then there's Isreal and who is funding them? Or we could go back even further..to the begining, wasn't America built on the blood of the indians?

"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between" (quote from Oscar Wilde)

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Registered: 05-27-2003
Tue, 05-11-2004 - 9:35pm
Wrong it was on Cnn and again on the the Today show this morning at the 'hard sight' 90% were arrested in error.
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Registered: 05-27-2003
Tue, 05-11-2004 - 9:41pm
Again Cnn and also on the Today show this morning. I thought I had heard 90 but even 70% deal with it it is the truth.
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Registered: 05-27-2003
Tue, 05-11-2004 - 9:44pm
Have you been to the prison lately? We screwed and bad. How can you posibbly tell what side of the prison those naked men were from?

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