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Wednesday, June 02, 2004

Links of the day

The good
Judge rejects limits on abortion: Law criminalizing 'partial-birth' procedure called unconstitutional, threat to women

The bad
The question: How would you feel about a person who thinks it is okay to grab your shirt and use it to clean their eyeglasses? During a commercial break on the David Letterman show, producer Maria Pope was on stage and discussing something with Letterman, and while she was standing there in front of Bush, George leaned forward, grabbed the back of her sweater and used it to clean his glasses. Check out the Quicktime video. (via Body and Soul)

The ugly
So where did the disconnects occur? Those at the top say that there was no authorization from those at the top of the military chain of command to abuse and torture prisoners yet it is becoming increasingly clear that abuse and torture - was widespread and systematic.

Over the past year and a half, the Army has opened investigations into at least 91 cases of possible misconduct by U.S. soldiers against detainees and civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan, a total not previously reported and one that points to a broader range of wrongful behavior than defense officials have acknowledged.

Kevin Drum points out that, via this article, evidence of torture at Abu Ghraib dates to two days after the 372nd Military Police Company arrived there.

That's only two days. There's plainly no way that a bunch of MPs from Maryland decided to start abusing prisoners in bizarre ways within two days of arriving, which means (a) they got instructions from someone else, and (b) it had been going on for some time before they got there.

The evidence is already pretty overwhelming that this abuse was not limited to a few "bad apples" in the 372nd, and this is yet another piece of evidence. So whose idea was this? And how high did it go?

Yeah, Kevin, we all want to know, too. I wonder if this guy will be able to get to the bottom of it.

posted by claudine |Added at 1:18 PM| | politics

 
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