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TAMMI W. COOPER, M.D.
has joined
i the practice of
Internal Medicine Specialists
Seth Minden, M.D., F.A.C.P.
David Rosman, M.D., F.A.C.P.
Steven Feldman, M.D.
Taking Responsibility
- On staff at Beaumont Hospital,
Huron Valley Hospital,
Providence Hospital
Al.-Si-ED mai; m ot-Id
intelligence) interrogators at the lower
S fitting in
level,"
he said, according to a CNN
comfort-
report.
able sur-
He also said that blame should
roundings,
reach
no higher than the brigade com-
it's hard to under-
mander
level.
stand the daily pres-
Brig.
Gen.
Janis Karpinski, in
sure our troops face.
charge
of
Abu
Ghraib, blames military
I was as angry as
intelligence
personnel.
anyone to see those
Read comments from the families of
HARRY American bodies
the seven military members who so far
KIRS BAUM torched and strung
face formal charges and you'll get a
Columnist
up on that bridge in
different take.
Fallujah, and I want-
According to a report from the
ed those responsible
Charleston
Daily Mail in West
to be brought to justice the "medieval"
Virginia,
Lynndie
England "wanted to
way.
see the world and go to college," said
But that shouldn't be an excuse for
her mother Terrie England.
the way a few misfits treated those
Lynndie was photographed mugging
prisoners in the Abu Ghraib prison for
for
the camera with naked prisoners in
so many months.
the
Iraq prison.
We're supposed to be in Iraq to
"Now
the government's turned its
bring freedom and democracy to the
region.
How can we win
"hearts and minds"
when this aberrant
behavior is allowed to
go on for so long?
I don't care that the
world is incensed by
these acts. I am
incensed by these acts;
We're supposed to be
taking the higher
moral ground in Iraq,
at least that's what I'm
told.
Defense Secretary
Donald Rumsfeld had Lynndie England
internal reports detail-
back on her, and everything's a big
ing the abuses on his desk since
joke,"
her mother said.
February, but said he didn't have the
Massachusetts
Sen. and presidential
time to go through them.
candidate John Kerry blamed
It wasn't until CBS aired some of
Rumsfeld, but President Bush threw
the photos that action began to take
his
support behind his defense secre-
place.
tary
Some said it was unnecessary for
"You are doing a superb job," he
CBS to air the photos; they should
said
to Rumsfeld as they stopped in
have just described what they had.
front
of reporters on May 10. "Our
Others treated CBS as if Morley Safer
nation owes you a debt of gratitude."
himself was photographed giving the
When an editorial appears in the
thumbs up sign in front of a naked
Military
Times blaming Rumsfeld and
prisoner.
Gen.
Richard
Myers, the chairman of
Fingers are pointing everywhere.
the
Joint
Chiefs
of Staff, for "profes-
Maj. Gen. Antonio Tagabu, in
sional
negligence,"
it should send a
charge of the investigation, told the
much
bigger
message
than a press
Senate Armed Services Committee on
release from the Democratic Party.
May 11 that he found no evidence
You can't question the patriotism of
those soldiers were following orders.
troops
in the field. When they don't
"I believe that they did it on their
have
the
confidence in their leaders,
own volition and I believe that they
then
the
leaders
must go.
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