Lies & Hypocrisy: U.S. State Department Says Iraqi Detainee Abuse Is "An Iraqi Problem"

[Panaconda]

"If there needs to be an accounting, first and foremost there needs to be an accounting by the Iraqi government itself, and how it has treated its own citizens,"

- State Department spokesman PJ Crowley

Wait a minute here P.J.

Didn't WikiLeaks also reveal Frago 242,an order from high up in the US military command instructing officers not to investigate reports of torture and other human rights violations by their Iraqi allies?

Iraq war logs: Secret order that let US ignore abuse


This is the impact of Frago 242. A frago is a "fragmentary order" which summarises a complex requirement. This one, issued in June 2004, about a year after the invasion of Iraq, orders coalition troops not to investigate any breach of the laws of armed conflict, such as the abuse of detainees, unless it directly involves members of the coalition. Where the alleged abuse is committed by Iraqi on Iraqi, "only an initial report will be made … No further investigation will be required unless directed by HQ".

Frago 242 appears to have been issued as part of the wider political effort to pass the management of security from the coalition to Iraqi hands. In effect, it means that the regime has been forced to change its political constitution but allowed to retain its use of torture.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/oct/22/iraq-detainee-abuse-torture-saddam

And hey P.J. how about that convenient State Department double standard?

Didn't the U.S. State Department call for international intervention when it accused Saddam Hussein's regime of similar abuses?

[blindpig]

1. The hypocrisy is breath taking.