Thursday, April 28, 2005

Publicly display able venom

CE Petit is angry at what he considers to be the "whitewash over command responsibility at Abu Gh'raib."

"Phil Carter, over at Intel Dump, has penned a remarkably even-tempered (if ultimately condemning) response to the whitewash over command responsibility at Abu Gh'raib. In his first update, he concludes:

Despite these generals' findings, none of the officers responsible for facilitating these abuses will face criminal charges. Or, put another way, the Army IG has wholly disregarded the record evidence before him to arrive at an arbitrary and capricious decision that the senior Army leaders involved should face no legal consequences for their actions. What kind of message does that send to our junior military leaders? What kind of message does that send to the world?

This is a lot more generous than I would have been. It's taken me three days to keep the venom in this message to a publicly displayable level."

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