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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?)