Denys,

did you also read this? Several month ago you complained about the showing
of Amrican POW's on TV and now this.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?
tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040510/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_us_rumsfeld&cid=1514&ncid=148
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Military newspaper blames Rumsfeld, Myers for "professional negligence"

WASHINGTON (AFP) - A leading military newspaper said that US Defense
Secretary Donald Rumsfeld set the tone for the prisoner abuse scandal in
Iraq by refusing to give captives rights due prisoners of war under the
Geneva Conventions.

"This was a failure that ran straight to the top," said the editorial
appearing in the May 17 edition of the Military Times weeklies.

"Accountability here is essential -- even if that means relieving top
leaders from duty in a time of war," it said.

Owned by Gannett, the Military Times publishes the Army, Navy and Air Force
times, weeklies that are widely read by servicemembers and distributed on
US military bases around the world.

The editorial said the soldiers caught in photographs and videos abusing
prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison are referred to around the Pentagon
as "the six morons who lost the war."

"But the folks in the Pentagon are talking about the wrong morons," it
said.

Responsibility, it said, "extends all the way up the chain of command to
the highest reaches of the military hierarchy and its civilian leadership."

"The entire affair is a failure of leadership from start to finish," it
said.

"Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld set the tone early in this war by
steadfastly refusing to give captives the rights accorded to prisoners of
war under the Geneva Convention," it said.

"From the moment they are captured, prisoners are hooded, shackled and
accorded no rights whatsoever. The message to the troops: Anything goes."

The editorial also faults General Richard Myers, the chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, for trying to persuade CBS television to refrain from
airing the images while failing to read the army's own damning internal
report detailing the abuses.

"On the battlefield, Myers' and Rumsfelds' errors would be called a lack of
situational awareness -- a failure that amounts to professional
negligence," it said.








On Sat, 8 May 2004 07:26:02 -0500, Denys Beauchemin
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>http://www.nationalreview.com/hanson/hanson200405070832.asp
>
>http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0504/krauthammer050704.asp
>
>http://foi.missouri.edu/jouratrisk/newswekept.html
>
>http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=31033
>
>http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/historic/c&gs/theb2930.htm
>
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