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IndianaGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-14-09 09:17 PM Original message |
General Janis Karpinski: Let's get out the truth about detainee photos |
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DURHAM D (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-14-09 09:23 PM Response to Original message |
1. Good for you for restoring her rank. |
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IndianaGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-14-09 09:25 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. She was a scapegoat. She had no command control over that part of the prison. |
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OneGrassRoot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-14-09 09:28 PM Response to Original message |
3. HUGE K&R. Glad she is getting visibility. Her voice here.... |
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Thrill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-14-09 09:58 PM Response to Original message |
4. I don't buy that logic. He's better off when he goes to Egypt with the photos released? |
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ProSense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-14-09 11:14 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. The problem with this notion that the photos, not torture, is likely to make anyone less safe is |
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onetwo (439 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-15-09 02:40 AM Response to Reply #5 |
12. What's with the strawman arguments? BOTH can make us "less safe." |
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ProSense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-15-09 08:20 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. Oh please. |
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Forkboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-15-09 01:26 AM Response to Reply #4 |
8. The fact that it poses a risk makes doing the right thing all the more courageous. |
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vaberella (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-15-09 01:30 AM Response to Reply #8 |
9. People keep saying that...but I really don't want to risk the life of my Pres. |
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Forkboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-15-09 01:49 AM Response to Reply #9 |
10. If doing what's right entails some danger than so be it. |
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vaberella (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-15-09 01:53 AM Response to Reply #10 |
11. You call it cowardice but I don't see it that way. |
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Forkboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-15-09 02:42 AM Response to Reply #11 |
13. Well, I don't see it as cowardice in Obama's case, but I do see it as political expedience. |
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Zodiak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-28-09 10:15 AM Response to Reply #8 |
21. We are politically and emotionally immature as a nation |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-16-09 12:43 AM Response to Reply #4 |
18. Do you mean because it's embarrassing that some of the torture happened in Egypt |
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RetroLounge (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-14-09 11:15 PM Response to Original message |
6. Under the Hopemobile with Krugman and Turley... |
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depakid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-15-09 12:58 AM Response to Original message |
7. Karpinski is spot on |
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Hanse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-16-09 12:28 AM Response to Original message |
15. Karpinski? The war criminal? |
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uponit7771 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-16-09 12:33 AM Response to Reply #15 |
16. Why is she a war criminal? |
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Hanse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-16-09 12:42 AM Response to Reply #16 |
17. Torture, rape, murder. The general Abu Ghraib stuff. |
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ClarkUSA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-28-09 09:48 AM Response to Reply #17 |
20. Yup. Funny how some want to make her some kind of victim/heroine when she's just covering her ass. |
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depakid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-28-09 10:21 AM Response to Reply #20 |
22. The facts here seem to be that she thinks the photos need to be released AND that |
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ClarkUSA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-28-09 10:38 AM Response to Reply #22 |
23. Of course she does. It further covers her ass and makes it easy to forget she's a war criminal. |
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depakid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-28-09 09:27 AM Response to Original message |
19. Kick |
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HOLOS (390 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-28-09 03:35 PM Response to Original message |
24. BRAVA, General Karpinski!! |
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