NY Times: To Halt Abuses, US Will Inspect Jails Run by Iraqis

[adigal]

Pot, meet Kettle. The irony of this just stuns me.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/14/international/middleeast/14abuse.html?hp&ex=1134622800&en=accd09fca009651d&ei=5094&partner=homepage

"BAGHDAD, Iraq, Dec. 13 - American military officers will inspect hundreds of detention centers and embed with Iraqi police commando units and other Interior Ministry forces to try to halt widespread abuses uncovered by raids on two Iraqi-run detention centers in Baghdad in the last month, the American ambassador pledged Tuesday."

So we are going to end abuse by sending in American militar officers, some of whom may have been complicit in our own abuse scandals, to inspect the Iraqi-run prisons. Wow.

"In the second raid last week, on another makeshift detention center run by a notorious police commando unit, the Wolf Brigade, as many as 26 of the 625 detainees jammed into the overcrowded center had been abused, Mr. Khalilzad said.

He gave no details of the abuse, but an Iraqi official said some of the detainees held by the Wolf Brigade had been "severely" tortured."

I know the intentions are good, but this is just too ironic.

[gtar100]

1. Or do they mean "To give tips"

The US government and military have no moral authority even to condemn torture anymore. Short-sighted insanity.

[Joanne98]

2. I thought this was The Onion! What a joke.....

[Barrett808]

3. Yes, Lynndie England can do some private contracting work. n/t

[mac56]

4. To halt abuses, the foxes will inspect the chicken coop.

nm

[PurityOfEssence]

5. No, no, no: "positive" on the left testicle, "negative" on the right

Sheesh.