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   From: alan.browne@FreeLunchVideotron.ca   
      
   m II wrote:   
      
   >   
   > Why is it when the OLD regime was in power in Iraq, *anything* bad that   
   > went on there was Hussein's fault but when the torture goes on NOW, it's   
   > the lowest ranks that are to blame? The brass are NOT to be blamed. Very   
   > two-faced attitude.   
      
   Very good point.   
      
   What surprises and disgusts me is that some enlisted soldiers are being   
   criminally charged but no officers are (to my knowledge, anyway).   
      
   Officers, whether present or not, are responsible for these prisoners   
   and for the enlisted guards who guard them.  If that means some company   
   grade officer has to get out of bed a few times a week at 02:30 or   
   whatever to check up on the prisoners and the enlisted personnel, then   
   so be it ... and if some field grade officers should be checking up on   
   the company grade officers, then so be it.  And up the chain.  But it   
   appears that the officer corps is getting off without a hitch... and   
   that is not right at all.  They have neglected their duty and they are   
   pinning the blame on the enlisted men and women.   
      
   There is, to be fair, some indication of a conflict between the 'police'   
   element of the Army and the Intelligence community and the expected   
   misfires and screwups ... but it basicaly looks like someone in the   
   intelligence community had too big a stick and the MP's were too afraid   
   to buck and complain.   
      
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