Bush needs to clean up his mess

Fred J. McCall wrote:
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:Fred J. McCall wrote:
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: 2) If guilty, they'll wind up tried and convicted and in the military
: prison in Leavenworth (if they don't draw a death penalty, which is
: pretty unlikely in a military court).
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:So far, every man convicted of contributing to the murders at
:Bagram has returned to duty. That does not inspire much
:confidence.

Circumstances alter cases, no matter how much you might dislike it.

In these cases the circumstances seem to be that there were photos
of the abuses at Abu Ghraib, but none from Bagram, and so there
was more publicity about the lesser crimes at Abu Ghraib. That's
the fault of the media, and I blame them for being irresponsible.

The sentences handed down appear to have depended more on the
publicity surrounding the cases, than on the severity of the crimes.
That I blame on the people running our courts-martial.


: 3) They're being held in a military brig here in the States, with
: conditions probably worse than those in Cuba.
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:Held in a brig, sure. Worse than in Cuba, not likely.

Don't know much about either military brigs or Cuba, do you?


I haven't been to either, have you?

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FF