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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Oh, gee...sorry to 'waste' your time.
I took your post to mean others from around the world...not just on our thread.
Is it right that the God fearing Islamics commit these attrocities on our people and expect no retaliation? How many times can we turn the other cheek? Humiliation versus having your head lopped off on film, I don't think there is much of a choice there. Police officers become angered when one of their own is killed in the line of duty. What do you think the men and women are feeling over their when they see their peers blown up in front of their faces along with innocent women and children?
Ok, so let me just get this strait, you can understand why our soldiers would "become angered" because they can see their own men getting killed by these people and it definitely bothers them.
However, the "god fearing Islamics" are commiting crazy "attrocities" with no reason?
James
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We kicked Saddam out of Kuwait, an oil-rich country that he illegally invaded....much like we did Iraq.
Or did you miss that part of why we went there in the first place?
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I don't suppose you'd be willing to put up anything to support this assertion would you - that the reservists are nothing but jobless losers looking to get paid to do nothing but travel and learn a trade and that they all self-disclosed these facts?
Interesting because I've never seen a report, military or otherwise,
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"If you don't stand up for something, you'll lie down for anything." -- B
Or maybe it's a heated discussion and sometimes things just come out.
I think most have been guilty for throwing some "mud-slinging" around. Just because that goes on here in there doesn't necessarily mean someone lacks intelligence to hold an open and honest discussion. Geesh!
Do you honestly think that those that killed Mr. Berg did it because they were upset about the Iraqi deaths??? These people did this kind of thing before and now is no exception, the media is just playing like it's all because of the big bad USA and this war. These Allah religious poisoned evil minds want to kill the USA for just about every reason under the sun....they hate us and this war just gives them more of an excuse although they never really needed one in the name of "Allah" to do so.
It certainly is easier to fight an almost "cartoon" like evil, the kind of evil that just has no validation in it whatsoever, these evil beings are not even "people" they are just poisoned evil minds that want nothing but death and corruption and little else, because after all, they are simply horrid souls with nothing good about them.
The truth of the matter is that it is a lot more complex than that, these "evil beings" don't hate us "just because they are evil and we are good" this is not the Lord of the Rings and an evil god did not create these evil beings and there is no crusade of good vs evil.
This cartoonish battle against evil may make you sleep better at night, but the brush you are painting with is more evil than most things in this world.
James
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