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2004-06-16 Iraq-Jordan

USA Inadequately Planned for Prisoners in Iraq

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Posted by Mike Sylwester 2004-06-16 8:46:11 AM|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Sooo...it's not working out so well, blaming it on "what Bush knew and when he knew it". So I guess now we have gone from Bush (as a Rumsfeld and Wolfy puppet) giving the orders to the idiots didn't properly plan for enough prisoners.

I can live with that. Must really disappoint the bushwackos.

Posted by B 2004-06-16 10:37:52 AM|| 2004-06-16 10:37:52 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 But the military unit that was put in charge of running prisons in Iraq, the 800th Military Police Brigade, was an Army Reserve outfit that was not trained to run prisons. The vast majority of its troops, including its commander, Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski, were part-time soldiers.

What? No mention that Karpinski failed to get her troops trained? No mention that some of her subordinates -- primarily those NOT under her direct supervision -- got the training for their units anyway?

Posted by Robert Crawford 2004-06-16 10:53:52 AM|| [http://www.kloognome.com] 2004-06-16 10:53:52 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 USA Inadequately Planned for Prisoners in Iraq

I'll say. Those guys that are now prisoners should all have died in gunbattles instead. The only Iraqi prisoner that was worth taking alive was Saddam.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-06-16 11:59:45 AM|| 2004-06-16 11:59:45 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 When does this "reporter" get to the comparisons between this war and any other war when it comes to percentages of troops allocated to prison duty etc? When does he get to the part where he talks about the number of local Iraqis who also work in these prisons?

Oh wait. It's USA Today. Facts and honest analysis don't matter.

Posted by Chris W. 2004-06-16 12:14:40 PM|| 2004-06-16 12:14:40 PM|| Front Page Top

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