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Game Over
The only officer charged with a crime in the Abu Ghraib prison torture scandal was acquitted today. That's it. Game Over. Only the poor people at the bottom of the heap go to jail for this.
You may want to remind yourself of just how hideous these crimes were by doing a Google search for Abu Ghraib photos, but be forewarned: the pics that made it into the press were not the worst ones.
It is instructive to compare this outcome to the trials that followed the My Lai massacre in Vietnam. Though no higher officers were convicted, a Lieutenant, William Calley was convicted of premeditated murder. No one of his rank was charged in Abu Ghraib.
There was ample evidence already in the public sphere to charge Rumsfeld himself but that was of course, never even considered.
One final note: one of those accused of whitewashing the My Lai massacre at the time was Colin Powell, then a 31-year-old US Army Major.
You may want to remind yourself of just how hideous these crimes were by doing a Google search for Abu Ghraib photos, but be forewarned: the pics that made it into the press were not the worst ones.
It is instructive to compare this outcome to the trials that followed the My Lai massacre in Vietnam. Though no higher officers were convicted, a Lieutenant, William Calley was convicted of premeditated murder. No one of his rank was charged in Abu Ghraib.
There was ample evidence already in the public sphere to charge Rumsfeld himself but that was of course, never even considered.
One final note: one of those accused of whitewashing the My Lai massacre at the time was Colin Powell, then a 31-year-old US Army Major.
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Posted on 29 Aug 2007 by bobostertag
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