The religious warrior of Abu Ghraib (Boykin)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1220781,00.html0

An evangelical US general played a pivotal role in Iraqi prison reform

Saving General Boykin seemed like a strange sideshow last October. After it was revealed that the deputy undersecretary of defence for intelligence had been regularly appearing at evangelical revivals preaching that the US was in a holy war as a "Christian nation" battling "Satan", the furore was quickly calmed.

Donald Rumsfeld, the defence secretary, explained that Boykin was exercising his rights as a citizen: "We're a free people." President Bush declared that Boykin "doesn't reflect my point of view or the point of view of this administration". Bush's commission on public diplomacy had reported that in nine Muslim countries, just 12% believed that "Americans respect Arab/Islamic values". The Pentagon announced that its inspector general would investigate Boykin, though he has yet to report.

Boykin was not removed or transferred. At that moment, he was at the heart of a secret operation to "Gitmoize" (Guantánamo is known in the US as Gitmo) the Abu Ghraib prison. He had flown to Guantánamo, where he met Major General Geoffrey Miller, in charge of Camp X-Ray. Boykin ordered Miller to fly to Iraq and extend X-Ray methods to the prison system there, on Rumsfeld's orders.

Boykin was recommended to his position by his record in the elite Delta forces: he was a commander in the failed effort to rescue US hostages in Iran, had tracked drug lord Pablo Escobar in Colombia, had advised the gas attack on barricaded cultists at Waco, Texas, and had lost 18 men in Somalia trying to capture a warlord in the notorious Black Hawk Down fiasco of 1993.
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the article also says: "Boykin was the action hero side of his boss, Stephen Cambone,"


what a duo

and Stephen (bad toupee) Cambone may be coming soon to a town near you. It's part of his job to help out if any of you boys get too out of hand. Head bags: Not just for Iraqis anymore.

http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2003_hr/022703cambone.html

"Officials in the Department of Homeland Security with intelligence responsibilities:

If confirmed, I will consult, and coordinate as required, with the Department of Homeland Security regarding all DoD intelligence activities and any others assigned to OUSD/I in support of or supported by the Department of Homeland Security.

I would ensure that the Department of Homeland Security is provided, via means mutually agreed upon within the interagency process, with information relevant to its mission in a timely manner to permit it to successfully discharge its responsibilities."

to find Saddam, the WMD and the trouble makers ASAP, for political reasons! When Bush's poll numbers started down hill over Iraq last summer the heat was put on the DoD, to try and make Bush look good to the public! The torture in Iraq was Bush and KKKarl playing politics! KKKarl wanted a WAR pResident type hero, but it turns out they were dead wrong about everything they said leading up to the invasion! Bush has shot his last wad IMO!