Pentagon doesn't get it: Buck stops higher up - USATODAY

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Finally, a blinders-off investigation into the Iraq (news - web sites) prisoner-abuse scandal that holds top military commanders responsible. From Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on down, senior officials failed to clarify how prisoners should be treated, an independent panel headed by former Defense secretary James Schlesinger concluded in a report released Tuesday.

The report comes in sharp contrast to the Pentagon (news - web sites)'s own investigations into mistreatment at Abu Ghraib prison. To date, they blame a few soldiers - and give the top brass a pass.

That's why outside probes are needed. When left to investigate itself, the Pentagon comes up short of full accountability in a scandal that has severely damaged America's image in Iraq and around the world.

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1. If we rate incidents, the stories about medical ethics abuse is #1

all attention should be focused there for now...
this issue will demand a trail...trail of accountability....
and those doctors should not get off, if true.

Some uneducated, thrill seeking, misguided, mis-ordered soldiers are going to end up in jail and the higher ups will go golfing or to their kids recital or on a Caribbean cruise or will be given and even higher place in the rungs of the military and in politics or in the Heritage Foundation and PNAC or become a guest expert for CNN.