"The actions of a few" that's the spin. A few bad apples.

[spanone]

Guess what! I believe most people are gonna buy it. The beheading did make the abuse pictures look like the Van Wilder frat movie from National Lampoon. The timing of Mr. Bergs death is just another lucky break in the bush* cabals unbelievabe lucky streak. But hey, I think you make your own luck in this world.

[sangh0]

1. "A few bad apples"

When you hear that, remind them of the rest of the saying:

"A few bad apples spoil the bunch"

Bush* and his gang have ruined the entire US military

[RobertSeattle]

2. Note my current signature:

"In Bizarro world, the Al-qaida talk show host Rusbar Limbaughsein said the Berg murder is the act of a "few bad apples" and a fraternity prank that went tragically wrong."

[Don_G]

3. 1600 Plus Photos Of "Bad Apples"?

Was the Marquis DeSade working overtime?

[killbotfactory]

4. Funny how they'll say that...

And then use the actions of a few terrorists to condemn everyone who opposes them in Iraq. It's all so ironic.

[iamjoy]

5. I'm Dizzy!

all this spin!

If it really were just a few and Rumsfeld et al knew about this in January, why weren't those "bad apples" yanked out then?

I think to dismiss it as a "few bad apples" misses the point -

The major issue is how any of these abuses could happen in the first place. Where were the commanding officers?

[central scrutinizer]

6. here's what's wrong with this argument

We are expected to believe:

1) The only abuse that occurred against anyone detained by American
forces in Iraq was photographed and reported.

(2) No abuses occurred anywhere that were not photographed or reported.

(3) The one percent of US troops who are the "bad apples" all happen to
serve together in the same unit... the unit that is the only one guilty,
and that happened to get caught because of the photographs.

(4) The aggressive investigation now being proclaimed by everyone from
George W. Bush to CENTCOM, about abuses that were already on record in
the military (an internal investigation had already been launched in
February by Major General Antonio M. Taguba, but was kept from the
public), would have happened had the photographs and story not been
aired on national television.

(5) The military was not attempting to cover up their own investigation,
and that they would have informed the public of these abuses even had
Seymour Hersh not put the whole miserable episode into print.

(6) The military did not cover anything up in the two weeks between the
time CBS warned them that they were going to air an expose and when they
actually did air it.

(7) No one in the chain of command above Brigadier General Janis
Karpinski is responsible for the failure to halt these abuses, even
though Lieutenant General Ricardo S. Sanchez was informed of the
investigation of these abuses, complete with sworn statements and
photographs, by General Taguba last February.

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I didn't write this - it came from a Z magazine e-mail update written by Stan Goff