Crooks and Liars:
Former Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski on the Keith Olbermann show:
She has a few words for Dick Cheney, Don Rumsfeld and the rest of the Bush administration that let the soldiers take the fall for their decisions.
Karpinski: This is one of the most shameful aspects of these memos and the knowledge that people at the highest levels of our government had about these memos, actually sat together and wrote them and rewrote them and crafted them to meet the requirements of these techniques they wanted to use.
They were well aware, these people, Rumsfeld, Sanchez, all of them and were well aware of these policies and these memorandums while these soldiers were being accused....five years ago. And if it was okay Mr. Former Vice President, if you're saying that this was necessary today and that it produced good intelligence..where were you five years ago stepping up to the plate and saying hold on, we can't discuss this because this is classified information, but these soldiers did not design these techniques? Where were all of those heros then to step up to the plate and defend these soldiers and to defend me? These were soldiers that were serving in a combat zone that were good Americans and remain good Americans and that were so unfairly blamed. Five years this month to get these memos released, declassified and released and people still trying to say that what happened at Abu Ghraib was different than what these memorandums were directing. No! It is not!
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We all knew it, now a soldier has to defend soldiers for following orders.
Janis spoke up on TV about the orders coming from the top and how Rummy had hired people to torture. She was quickly removed and denied a promotion because she spoke up. She was forced to resign or lose her penison. Yes we knew the US soldiers were ordered to torture but we didn't care and they were sent to jail as Americans cheered We Support Our Troops just lip service. But they have flags and stickers.
Former VA Secretary Anthony Principi (January 23, 2001 – January 26, 2005), a Republican, well before he was removed from office, gave all veterans the call to arms. Principi said, "History is littered with governments destabilized by masses of veterans who believed that they had been taken for fools by a society that grew rich and fat at the expense of their hardship and suffering."
And Dick, you are one of the worst fat cats on the planet.
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