the following excerpt is from the article at:
http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=1404
Iraq : General Was Told to Treat Prisoners 'Like Dogs'
The abuse of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib jail came about with the
introduction of methods used at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in
Cuba that treated detainees ``like dogs,'' Brigadier General Janis
Karpinski said in an interview with the BBC.
The 51-year-old commander was in charge of the military police that
ran the Baghdad prison when the abuse scandal erupted in April with
the publication of photographs showing Iraqi detainees stripped naked
being humiliated and maltreated.
Karpinski told the British Broadcasting Corp. she knew nothing of the
abuse because military intelligence took over part of the Iraqi prison
to make the interrogations more like ``Gitmo,'' the nickname for
Guantanamo. She cited some comments about how to treat prisoners that
she said the current Iraqi prison chief Major General Geoffrey Miller,
formerly in charge of Guantanamo, told her.
``He said they are like dogs and if you allow them to believe at any
point that they are more than a dog, then you've lost control of
them,'' Karpinski said in the BBC interview.
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I am glad that certain elements of our military has seen fit to treat
POWs in that manner. It ensures that our soldiers will be treated
humanely and according to the international Geneva Conventions in
future conflicts.
God Bless George Bush and Donald Rumsfeld. If Jesus Christ were alive
today, surely he would be in Iraq himself, giving those Iraqi infidels
the treatment they deserve.
Thank God also for our country once again proving that it deserves to
be the champion of human rights worldwide. As always, we lead by
example. Who would dare not follow us?
God Bless You All,
Tom Kunich
(what would Jesus do?)