General: New Photos Could Be Used As Tool

[rodeodance]

This has futher inflamed the Arab world--and will give us a license for more killing.



General: New Photos Could Be Used As Tool

"......The new photos drew strong reactions in Arab media as did the earlier ones.

"The two scandals confirm the image about the Americans known in the Middle East: that the Americans are not a charity or a humanitarian organization that is leading an experiment of democracy," said Sateh Noureddine, managing editor of the Lebanese leftist newspaper As-Safir. "Rather, (the U.S. government) is leading a retaliatory operation following the Sept. 11 attacks."


Noureddine said the photos "will definitely be front page news" in his paper's Monday edition. Yonadem Kana, a member of an Iraqi government advisory and oversight group, said the photos were "rare cases exaggerated by the media." ......

Sat, Dec 04, 2004
"http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&e=4&u=/ap/20041205/ap_on_re_mi_ea/prisoner_photos"

1 hour, 28 minutes ago


By SARAH EL DEEB, Associated Press Writer

CAIRO, Egypt - A former military spokesman in Iraq (news - web sites) said Saturday new pictures showing apparent abuse of Iraqi prisoners were the acts of an isolated few but will be used by some to try to tarnish the entire U.S. military. .....

[daleo]

1. Kimmet is a tool

A tool of Bush/PNAC war-mongering, and just a tool.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

2. Duh

Maybe these seals should have considered the possiblity before they pulled this shit.

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. Hey General Kimmet you are AGAIN blaming the

troops?

How 'bout some REAL LEADERSHIP man?

[whalerider55]

4. i tried to use one as a screwdriver.

ir didn't work. figures.

Whalerider55

[saigon68]

5. WHO IS KIMMITT THE WAR CRIMINAL???

http://www.melbourne.indymedia.org/print.php?id=67286

Kimmitt's father, Joseph Stanley (Stan) Kimmitt, a former Col. in Army (an artilleryman like
Mark), has parlayed his military service into a Washington, DC, public relations, or lobbyist, firm
-- Kimmitt, Senter, Coates, & Weinferter. As Gen. Kimmitt promotes the war in Iraq, his father
represents defense contractors such as Textron Defense Systems, Talley Defense Systems, and
Boeing (maker of the Army's Apache attack helicopter).

The Kimmitts are a classic example of the revolving-door syndrome of U.S. military officers and
defense contractors. Such double-dipping is commonplace. It is one of the things President
Eisenhower meant when he referred to the dangers of the "military-industrial complex." It is a
self-replicating monster that feeds on war, death, and destruction

Ironically, S. Joseph Kimmitt was the secretary and close friend of Sen. Mike Mansfield of
Montana, after Kimmitt's military service. Sen. Mansfield came to see the Vietnam war as
unnecessary and would doubtless be opposed to the Iraq war if he were still alive.

Gen. Kimmitt's brother, Joseph "Jay" Kimmitt, is a Washington, DC, lobbyist employed by
Wisconsin-based Oshkosh Truck Corp. the No. 1 maker of concrete mixers, trash haulers and
military trucks. Now it wants a bigger slice of the homeland-security pie, too. And Jay Kimmitt
hired a Washington-based PR firm (not his father's) to get it. Another example of the revolving
door, Jay Kimmitt served 27 years in the Army he is now selling to.

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. You know what I would love to see

ANY Army (or any other service) officer who leaves as an O-3 can still apply to a job in teh private sector even in weapons... after that, O-4 and above, sorry pal, you cannot get a job in any of these industries, even if distantly related for at least 15 years... if flag\ general level, NEVER.

[saigon68]

7. “BRING EM ON”



“BRING EM ON” shouted THE AWOL CHIMPANZEE

ON EDIT----YOUR IDEA HAS MERIT---UNFORTUNATELY THIS GANG OF THUGS WILL NEVER SHUT OFF THIR MONEY TAP.

[Disturbed]

8. War is good for many.

The MIC are dealers in death and maiming, mostly innocent non-combatents. They are proud of their roles in the Death Machine.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

10. Have you ever seen a nation so addicted to militarism, so fascinated by

"weapons systems" so caught up in "winning"? Winning what I ask. It is truly amazing the power that corporations, primarily the MIC as mentioned here have over what happens in the decision making process at the highest levels.


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[Swamp Rat]

9. General Kimmit is absolutely right: The photos CAN be used as a tool

to bring down the Bush adminisration, and I hope it works. :grr:

[alank]

11. Another Oscar Nominee for Best Torture Documentary

The new images of prisoner abuse, this time by Navy Seals, indicates that Abu Ghraib may not have been an isolated event.

The article in the Sydney Morning Herald quotes Commander Bender condemming the act of taking and posting the images:

"They presented copies of them to us last week and once we were presented with these photos we launched an investigation as to how the photos got on the internet and who is responsible,"

"The matter is currently under investigation to determine if the personnel acted properly." (This is ambiguous: I hope he means the acts, not the recording of them.)

"Before they go on deployment they are instructed that taking photos of detainees is strictly forbidden," he said.

Bender had lots of condemnation for the taking and posting of the images, but not much to say about the subject matter. Not re-assuring.