Thread: Bush needs to clean up his mess
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Old June 25th 06, 10:22 PM posted to rec.aviation.military,rec.aviation.military.naval,sci.military.naval
Fred J. McCall
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Default Bush needs to clean up his mess
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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.
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: Circumstances alter cases, no matter how much you might dislike it.
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:In these cases the circumstances seem to be that there were photos
f 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.
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:The sentences handed down appear to have depended more on the
ublicity surrounding the cases, than on the severity of the crimes.
:That I blame on the people running our courts-martial.

And you are familiar with all the facts of all the cases, so that you
can arrive at these conclusions? Or do you merely arrive at them out
of thin air?

: : 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.
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: Don't know much about either military brigs or Cuba, do you?
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:I haven't been to either, have you?

Yes, I have. And one needn't have been somewhere to actually know
something about it, in any case. One need merely have the desire to
check the facts; a desire that you virtually always seem to lack.

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