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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PS> The book; Stupid White Men,(number one best seller) was written by an American, who loves his country and like most of us, didn't want this war!
We may dissagree on this and I don't doubt that Saddam was evil and needed to be deposed. But he wasn't a threat to the west and there are far more dangerous regimes in the world.
I think that the troops should get out of Iraq as soon as possible, or it could go on for years, like Vietnam.
Bush and his lap dog...Blair, have gone to war on a false claim of weapons of mass distruction. The truth, like it or not is totally different!!! Please read the book by Michael Moore(an American, who loves his country) it is called; Stupid White Men. It tells the truth about how Bush got to be President (illegally) Also that he, Rumsfeld and Cheney set up an organisation called; The Neo-Conservatives. They planned World domination. The book was a number one best seller
>"stop acting without UN support."<
The UN is far from from perfect but until another organizarion comes along to replace it, it's all we have.
Hi Taylorkiakidis
I remember during the Clinton administration being directed to read "The Clinton Body Count". This was some bizarre conspiracy theory that the president of the United States was MURDERING his political enemies in plane crashes. Micheal Moore's conspiracy theories rank right up there with those, except instead of extreme right wing fantacies, he offers them from the left.
Michael Moore was booed when he received his Oscar, but only because, in his acceptance speech, he spoke out against the war.
He did, when he accepted the trophy, invite ALL the other nominees on stage, as he said they all won this award, as people who work to bring the truth to the American public.
I'd never seen an Oscar winner invite all those who didn't win onto stage with him. That was way cool, I thought.
Interestingly, you can hear both cheers and booing in the audience - and the story is, that the boo'ing wasn't nearly so loud at the event itself - but that the network added more booing in for broadcast.
At any event, anyone who is going to stand up and make a speech to a group like that, either in support or opposition to the war, is going to get mixed response. I recall, during that award show, other winners who made comments about the war ALSO got a mixture of cheers and boos.
Any booing of Michael Moore had NOTHING to do with the "Hollywood Elite" not liking him. He did, after all, win the Oscar.
This is right-wing propaganda. According to the Red Cross about 90% of the prisoners are not guilty of any wrond-doing, just being at the wrong place at the wrong time. The prison has also been guilty of not processing the prisoners quickly enough.
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