Galen Hekhuis wrote:

On Thu, 13 May 2004 13:48:35 GMT, Brian Nystrom
wrote:


Fine. Two more people have already been court martialed and I'm sure
there are more to come. As I said, the investigations are ongoing. What
is it with you and others here that you have to have the whole story
RIGHT NOW!? It's going to take time to get to the bottom of this. Is
that so unreasonable?


RIGHT NOW I can tell that more than just "6 or 7" were involved. I didn't
need any hearings to determine that. Why are we being told it was "just a
few bad apples" when RIGHT NOW there is plenty to suggest it went much
higher than that? I don't demand the whole story RIGHT NOW but then
neither am I trying to close my eyes to evidence that is available RIGHT
NOW.

That's not the story that's coming out of the hearings (though it is the
opinion of some individuals). The blame is going well up the chain of
command and it's looking entirely likely that at least one general and
one colonel will be court martialed, plus their subordinates in the
chain of command. While it appears that there were only a handful of
people who actually perpetrated the offenses, the web of culpability is
definitely going to extend much further.