Something is quite wrong here (Fort Worth TX)

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Posted on Mon, Sep. 06, 2004
By Joseph Galloway
Knight Ridder Newspapers

WASHINGTON - The investigations into the mistreatment, humiliation and even torture of Iraqi prisoners in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal have slowly worked their way up the military food chain. Very slowly indeed. <snip>

What should come out of this soul-searching is not what we have seen to date: an Army and an officer corps bobbing and weaving and ducking for cover. First came denial. Then came the seven soldiers below the rank of sergeant as scapegoats. We were assured that the problem was isolated -- that it went no higher up the chain.

But it inevitably did go higher. We were treated to the spectacle of a Reserve brigadier general going on television to say she didn't know what was happening in a prison guarded by troops under her command.

Then came an Army inspector general report that was, plainly put, a whitewash that declared there was nothing wrong. Not a thing. Everything in the Army was just fine, from training to leadership to command climate. Just a few bad apples at the bottom of the barrel, a few out-of-control enlisted troops who were being dealt with. <snip>

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