Monday, May 03, 2004
General Karpinski on Reservists: "We're Expendable"
General Karpinski is not going gently into that good night! She's talking to the press and laying down some well-aimed return fire.
General Karpinski said she was speaking out because she believed that military commanders were trying to shift the blame exclusively to her and other reservists and away from intelligence officers still at work in Iraq.
"We're disposable," she said of the military's attitude toward reservists. "Why would they want the active-duty people to take the blame? They want to put this on the M.P.'s and hope that this thing goes away. Well, it's not going to go away."
I loved it when she admits she should have more closely examined the Military Intelligence operation at the prison after MI officials "went to great lengths to try to exclude I.C.R.C. [International Committee of the Red Cross] officials from entering the site."
Zing!!!!!
Splash, out
Jason
General Karpinski said she was speaking out because she believed that military commanders were trying to shift the blame exclusively to her and other reservists and away from intelligence officers still at work in Iraq.
"We're disposable," she said of the military's attitude toward reservists. "Why would they want the active-duty people to take the blame? They want to put this on the M.P.'s and hope that this thing goes away. Well, it's not going to go away."
I loved it when she admits she should have more closely examined the Military Intelligence operation at the prison after MI officials "went to great lengths to try to exclude I.C.R.C. [International Committee of the Red Cross] officials from entering the site."
Zing!!!!!
Splash, out
Jason
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