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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Mon, 05-10-2004 - 1:45pm

Here's the thread ...........


We are Retaliating For Fallujah!!!


http://messageboards.ivillage.com/n/mb/message.asp?webtag=iv-elinthenews&msg=6315.1

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Mon, 05-10-2004 - 2:12pm
I, for one, could care less about these prisoners and I think you'll find that the majority of Americans feel the same way I do. I wish we would just get out of there and leave them to murder each other. Who cares!
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Mon, 05-10-2004 - 2:18pm

I surely hope so...and do we hear an outcry for the Iraq leaders to apologize to US?


We ARE the government in Iraq right now...as far as the leaders of the terrorist groups, well, we could demand apologies but they would never appear.


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Mon, 05-10-2004 - 2:28pm
Then I suggest that you reread it and also read other articles on this subject.

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Mon, 05-10-2004 - 2:32pm

Welcome to the In The News board.


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Mon, 05-10-2004 - 3:39pm

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Yeah, who cares?


I mean, it's not like we should expect the Iraqis to care about US, either, right?

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Mon, 05-10-2004 - 7:18pm
Hi

Sorry, yes I did mean Guantanamo. It is deplorable the way they are treated in that prison. So is there any wonder that the U.S. troops are getting the wrong message, when it comes to the tretment of Iraqi prisoners. I don't think that America knows what the Geneva Convention is!!!

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Mon, 05-10-2004 - 7:57pm
Look. Nothing Bush can say will ever make anything the US government has done or allowed any better. Anyway, it's a fact (NOT opinion) that a considerable amount of Americans are enraged every time he opens his mouth. So...WHAT EXACTLY IS IT THAT YOU FIND "ACCEPTABLE"!? It's not sad that we're against him, it's %*$#(@&% wonderful. Frankly, dear, anyone who still supports Bush or any of his cronies in any way is either painfully ignorant because of some religious/societal/family brainwash or is just downright evil. Which are you?

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Mon, 05-10-2004 - 8:03pm
Look, if you knew the real history, you'd know that this is a habit stretching back for decades. It's not new. Every time the US has occupied somewhere, the place ended up worse than it was to begin with. It's a "Big Deal" because ANY unneccesary loss of life is an atrocity. Most of all, it's a "Big Deal" because the attitude of America Uber Alles is absolutely evil and totally counterproductive to society. By the way, it's a fact that there have always been more reports of American and Jewish casualties than of Iraqi or Palestinian.



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Mon, 05-10-2004 - 8:05pm

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