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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If it's the same Michael Moore that did "Bowling for Columbine" then I'd consider anything he's said, written or filmed as suspect.
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minnie, I think we've found something we agree on.
"Kook" is an excellent adjective for that......kook.
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You may feel we are better than that and that we should apoligize to the Iraqis or the Arab countries, but I'm a firm believer that you reep what you sow.
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Not to mention the fact that the Academy Awards is not the forum to make a political statement and all you do when you DO make that statement is make yourself look like a.................kook.
There's that word again!
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So, you're advocating, then, just pulling Iraqis off the street and forcing them to sodomize themselves with bananas, strip them naked and walk them around on a leash or have them pile into a human pyramid, ride an old woman like a donkey because it's justified with the blood of American soldiers killed by OTHER Iraqis?
There is absolutely NO justification for what these soldiers did.
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The movie of Berg being beheaded. Now THAT is barbaric!!!!!!!
Please view this so that you will think twice before you make statements like this.
And don't be ridiculous about Iraqi officials asking for help. Saddam Hussain was the brutal dictator before we went in. HE was the official in charge before we went in. Do you really think that HE would have written to us asking us to fight for his oppressed people? Well, we didn't go in just to fight for his oppressed people (that was a benefit from us going in). We went in to enforce UN resolutions that he ignored for twelve years. We went in to fight for AMERICA, and our safety. Try as you may, you will not be able to put him and his elite followers out there as some innocent, ESPECIALLY since it has come out that the "no" votes in the UN were BRIBED BY HIM.
If you want to know how the Iraqis really feel ASK an Iraqi here in the United States who is free to speak his mind. The agenda driven news media NEVER does that because they support this action and will tell you the truth about Saddam and about how they appreciate what we have done for them.
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There are so many things wrong with this statement, it would take forever to point them all out, so I'll just hit the important things.
First off, the "All Volunteer" military has never seen better success during a peacetime situation than it has in the years following the Vietnam Conflict.
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