Soldier Reports More (Iraq prisoners)Abuses to Senator (MCain)

[papau]

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/05/international/middleeast/05abuse.html

October 5, 2005
Soldier Reports More Abuses to Senator
By ERIC SCHMITT
WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 - An Army captain who has reported new allegations of detainee abuse in Iraq met Tuesday with Senator John McCain and staff aides on the House Armed Services Committee and gave them additional accounts of abuse in Iraq that other soldiers had sent him in recent days, Congressional aides said.

The officer, Capt. Ian Fishback, in a brief interview after his half-hour meeting with Mr. McCain declined to describe the new information he gave the senator or, in a separate meeting, to the House aides. But Captain Fishback said that since he and two other former members of the 82nd Airborne Division last month accused soldiers in their battalion in Iraq of routinely beating and abusing prisoners in 2003 and 2004, several other soldiers had contacted him and asked him to relay to lawmakers their own experiences.

Mr. McCain, an Arizona Republican on the Armed Services Committee, said nothing in a statement about any new reports of abuse, saying only, "I'm even more impressed by what a fine and honorable officer he is."

But a senior House aide who met with Captain Fishback said the officer had read a letter from a sergeant describing detainee abuse in Iraq and allowed the aides to read the document before taking it back. The aide, who spoke on condition of anonymity because Captain Fishback related the information in confidence for use in a possible Congressional investigation, declined to give details of the abuse.
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[deutsey]

1. Why does he hate America?

:sarcasm:

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2. Did you witness McCain getting after General Myers?

[pushycat]

3. That would be good - go after Meyers eom

[chat_noir]

5. check out Jon Stewart's clip..

the title of the video clip is "Hearing Impaired". :toast:

http://www.comedycentral.com/shows/the_daily_show/videos/most_recent/index.jhtml

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9. Kudos for Jon Stewart

[Just Me]

4. I am so damned sick, sick SICK and tired of this shit!!!!

When are those responsible for intitiating this inhumane evil (Gonzales, Rumsfeld, et al) going to have their balls wrung in the wheels of justice for their malignant actions?

:grr: DAMNIT, ANYWAY!!!!

[kostya]

6. I'll be very surprised if McCain does squat on this issue.

I wouldn't trust him as far as I could throw him. He will collect all this information and then bury it. - K

[hootinholler]

7. WHERE. ARE.THE. PHOTOS? n/t

[txaslftist]

8. A true test of John McCain.

The man who witnessed and deplored POW mistreatment of his fellow men in Vietnam, including himself is now confronted with the same kind of abuse occurring in Iraq, under his "buddy" GWB.

Will he stand with his buddy and rush to protect GWB as he has ever since his unbelievable conversion during the 2000 election? Or will he stand up as a victim of past prisoner abuse and acknowledge that the Geneva conventions are being violated by his own nation?

Is he GWB's bitch truly and forever or is there the possibility of redemption for the POW who came back?

Let's get some popcorn and watch!