Has Abu Ghraib been swept under the rug?

[Oddman]

No more photos, no more stories, no more hearings, no more prosecutions, Rummy sitting pretty, only Karpinski held accountable.

What happened to the stories about soldiers using electrocution at other prisons?

UN Says Abu Ghraib Abuse Could Constitute War Crime but we only hear about bush trying to look presidential in Europe and comparing himself to Winston Churchill . . .

[Cleita]

1. It has, along with Afghanistan.

eom

[Oddman]

7. That's true

didn't they say they had Osama surrounded a few months ago? Then they said they had one of his top people surrounded a few weeks after that . . .then nothing . . .

[Cleita]

12. Well, besides that, it's back to where it was before.

All the big rebuilding our chimpster promised is a chimera.

[shraby]

2. I think the newspapers are

concentrating on D-Day right now. If things stay stagnant very long, I would guess more photos will be published. There are over a hundred in the hands of newspapers. I also don't think Sy Hersh will stay silent for very long on this either. He'll crank up the pressure to keep the investigation ongoing.
On t.v. he said he's working on more of the story. :D

[buycitgo]

3. rumsfeld talks things over with his acolyte

[Gman]

4. Its not swept under the rug

its run its course as a news story. There's nothing in the public domain right now that remainss to be told. If there's new developments, it will be right back front and center.

[lapauvre]

5. yes (eom)

[UTUSN]

6. Well, Yesssss n/t

[lapauvre]

8. I took this personally.

My best friend, two of my sons, my daughter, told me I took it too personally.

They told me I held America to too high a standard. They told me there was an America that used to be and there was an America now, and I should accept it.

This did not start with these young people, I hope. If it did, then God help America. No thinking human being should have carried out these actions. No thinking human being could NOT know the cruelty of the acts. The shame and humiliation. Acts committed not upon military uniformed combatants, but civilians.

Not in my wildest nightmare can I conceive of an America that buys the idea that our your people are so depraved as to follow those orders.

[IHaveADream]

9. I really thought that would be bush's undoing !

But I've said that about so much of the corruption and illegal activity this administration has been a part and parcel of. I mean if you can start an illegal war and kill 15,000 innocent civilians and 850 American soldiers and get away with it then anything is possible .

[Oddman]

10. Hear, hear . . .

That's the truth, if bush can get away with an illegal war anything IS possible!!!!


As President Bush put it, they are an exceptional "few bad apples"
whose actions "do not reflect the nature of our country."

[scottcsmith]

11. That's our So-Called Liberal Media in action

They're on the job! Abu where?

The worst part is, so much of the story hasn't been reported, not to mention the fact that the DOD had over 90 investigations underway of prisoner abuse cases. So much for the right-wing claims of Abu Ghraib being an "isolated" incident.

MSNBC has done a lot of reporting on the subject.