Harry Krause wrote:

Dave Hall wrote:

On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 10:15:25 -0500, Harry Krause
wrote:


Jim, wrote:

http://www.salon.com/news/wire/2005/...re2/print.html

Extract

On another subject, Karpinski said she had seen written orders to
hold a prisoner that the CIA had captured without keeping records.
The documents released by the ACLU quote an unnamed Army officer at
Abu Ghraib as saying military intelligence officers and the CIA
worked out a written agreement on how to handle unreported
detainees. An Army report issued last September said investigators
could not find any copies of any such written agreement.

Karpinski said Maj. Gen. Walter Wodjakowski, then the No. 2 Army
general in Iraq, told her in the summer of 2003 not to release more
prisoners, even if they were innocent.

"I don't care if we're holding 15,000 innocent civilians. We're
winning the war," Karpinski said Wodjakowski told her. She said she
replied: "Not inside the wire, you're not, sir."



Parts of Karpinski's transcript indicate that US soldiers were
holding 8-9-10 and 11 year old children in that damned prison. One
can only imagine what kinds of abuse the children received.



I would imagine (assuming it's true) that those kids were treated
better than those soldiers were, who were on the receiving end of
bombs that other children deployed.



You might imagine that. I would imagine something totally different.
The record indicates that we had brutal, sadistic, sexual perverts in
charge of that prison, and the enlisted personnel weren't any better.
There's no reason to believe children were treated any differently than
adult prisoners.


More from the article (suggest you all read it before commenting)

"Another soldier said in January 2004 that troops poured water and
smeared mud on the detained 17-year-old son of an Iraqi general and
"broke" the general by letting him watch his son shiver in the cold."