General Says Sanchez Rejected Her Offer to Give Address to Iraqis On Abuses

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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/24/politics/24GENE.html

WASHINGTON, May 23 — The top American general in Iraq, Lt. Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez, rejected a recommendation in January that the military make a public Arabic-language radio or television address to the Iraqi people to address allegations of abuse at Abu Ghraib prison, the former head of the military police at the prison said in an interview on Sunday.

The officer, Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski, also said General Sanchez visited a military intelligence unit at Abu Ghraib at least three times in October, when the first of the worst abuses were taking place. And while General Sanchez has said he did not learn of the abuses until Jan. 14, General Karpinski said his top deputy, Maj. Gen. Walter Wojdakowski, was present at a meeting in late November at which there was extensive discussion of a Red Cross report that cited specific cases of abuse.

An article in The Washington Post on Sunday cited a statement from a military lawyer that a captain at the prison had placed General Sanchez at the scene of some "interrogations and/or allegations of the prisoner abuse."

But a spokesman for General Sanchez, Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt, described that report on Sunday as "false," and said the general "stands by his testimony before Congressional committees" that he did not learn of the abuses until Jan. 14. And the statements by the captain, Donald J. Reese, that were referred to in the Post article contradicted his sworn testimony to Army investigators in January. When the investigators asked Captain Reese then if the "chain of command" was aware of abuse, he said "no."

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[madrchsod]

1. friday night at the fights

wow what a fight.

[TahitiNut]

2. Sanchez apparently learned something in Iraq.

He lies like a Persian rug. :grr:

[shraby]

3. They just can't seem

to get their stories straight can they???

[acmavm]

4. Karpinski vs. Sanchez & Kimmit. My guess is that the good old boys

will end up the winners in this one. Although no one in this whole frigging mess is going to come out of this with their hides intact.

[saracat]

5. Told Ya so! She won't go down alone.

Karpinki will fight back! They will rue their choice of fall girl. This will lead right to Rummy and upward.Go Janice!

[Crachet2004]

6. Hey! Message to George the Asshole Bush, from Cratchet...

Looks like that MP, General Janis, who was supposed to take the fall? And who we were all supposed to think was a Dominatrix? (And my apologies, but I did.)

Hey Asshole! Looks like General Janis is gonna be cracking the whip on YOUR ass.

I'm really glad that women and minorities are in the military. A bunch of white guys would have covered the whole damn thing up...I know, I am one.

As the French would say, 'vive la differance!

Take'em down baby, take them DOWN!

[Disturbed]

7. Kimmitt

"Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt, described that report on Sunday as "false,"

Does anyone believe this Waffen SS scum?

[Crachet2004]

10. I heard Gen. Janis myself, on TV, right after the torture story broke...

say she would not take the fall...and now I take it, by extension, she meant that to include the troops under her command. I think it is possible she might be gonna protect her people by bearing witness against other officers...even superior officers! We will see.

If she does this, Bushco is cooked. Stick in a fork, they are DONE! Every one of those bastards has lied to Congress, and I think Congress will have to act in self-preservation. GOP Congress has some really bad polls out about them, just now.

I forget where, but somewhere I heard or read Gen. Janis had declined to accept a full-pay retirement...basically offered to shut her up, I took it. Don't know if this is true or not, though.


From what I have read and seen of her, she is PISSED, and is not going to BE the goat.

Go Gen. Janis!

[Wilber_Stool]

8. Seems like its time

for another picture disk to turn up. Wouldn't that be somthing.

[TacticalPeek]

9. Hersh sat out a hand this weekend. About time for another blow.

Zinni on 60 Minutes.

Rangel's articles of impeachment for Rummy introduced and in committee.

Lugar unloading.

Chalabi.

The mighty Wurlitzer is humming.

:evilgrin: