So, we put a Business Consultant in charge of 3 prisons in Iraq? WTF

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Last June, Janis Karpinski, an Army reserve brigadier general, was named commander of the 800th Military Police Brigade and put in charge of military prisons in Iraq. General Karpinski, the only female commander in the war zone, was an experienced operations and intelligence officer who had served with the Special Forces and in the 1991 Gulf War, but she had never run a prison system. Now she was in charge of three large jails, eight battalions, and thirty-four hundred Army reservists, most of whom, like her, had no training in handling prisoners.

General Karpinski, who had wanted to be a soldier since she was five, is a business consultant in civilian life, and was enthusiastic about her new job. In an interview last December with the St. Petersburg Times, she said that, for many of the Iraqi inmates at Abu Ghraib, “living conditions now are better in prison than at home. At one point we were concerned that they wouldn’t want to leave.”

A month later, General Karpinski was formally admonished and quietly suspended, and a major investigation into the Army’s prison system, authorized by Lieutenant General Ricardo S. Sanchez, the senior commander in Iraq, was under way.
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?040510fa_fact

OK...I get why they are going after General Karpinski, but dontcha think we should go after the head of the idiot who put her in charge in the first place. Now we all know that Rummy has claimed from the get go that our troop strenth was and still is, just fine! This is one patch work invasion!

is just par for the course.

...am I to understand that the US military fired Iraq's full-time military (who they are now rehiring) and put UNTRAINED RESERVISTS in CHARGE of managing prisoners? Ok, wow, we're more f'd up than I'd imagined...

that they actually put CIVILIAN CONTRACT EMPLOYEES over the day-to-day management of the prisons. That is the worst part of this disturbing saga.