US General: Don't release any more prisoners, even if they are innocent

[NNN0LHI]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4339511.stm

US held youngsters at Abu Ghraib

<snip>The Pentagon has acknowledged holding so-called "ghost detainees" on the basis that they were enemy combatants and therefore not entitled to prisoner of war protections.

Brig Gen Karpinski said US commanders were reluctant to release detainees, an attitude she called "releasophobia".

In her interview, she said Maj Gen Walter Wodjakowski, then the second most senior army general in Iraq, told her in the summer of 2003 not to release more prisoners, even if they were innocent.

"I don't care if we're holding 15,000 innocent civilians," she said Maj Gen Wodjakowski told her. "We're winning the war."

And what is most remarkable to me is that we still have people running around saying "ooh, we just can't leave them poor Iraqis" with a straight face? Weird. At least we are not as bad as the Nazis.

[bullimiami]

1. not as bad as the nazis....yet. the history is still unfolding and they

have a lot of power.

no telling.

[mike_c]

2. they have destroyed everything that America stands for....

And despite the Bush administration's fascism, Wodjakowski is the product of what? 20+ years of training? Did he suddenly discard that training when Bush was elected, or did his training prepare him for this act of barbarism? Or is he just another "bad apple?" This is one of most shameful times in American history.

[madeline_con]

4. "Did he suddenly discard that training ..."

No. The American war machine has had that attitude for decades.

It's their m.o. They're not do-gooders running around the world helping poor nations stay free. They're the mercenaries of corporate hegemony.

[Inland]

3. Releasing them would send wrong message to other innocent people.

Lead them to believe that the natural state is to be free or something.

[havocmom]

6. Releasing them would get truth out about what US is doing to innocents

and that is gonna make for a whole lotta justifiably pissed off Iraqi nationals fighting very hard for their nation AND help terrorists recruitment.

Thank you, Donald Rumsfeld for making the world safe for war profiteers. We will be fighting for the rest of our nation's existence now. But profits are UP!

edit: ommision

[Inland]

7. Sooner or later, they will have to be declared innocent

So what does the admin do? Make it later, because it'll be embarassing.

[Ms. Clio]

5. Hey Maj Gen Withyerheadupyerass

You committed war crimes, and you still didn't win the war.

If there was any justice in this world (which of course there isn't), you would spend the rest of your life in Abu Ghraib.

[Just Me]

8. And they call that delivering "freedom" and "democracy"?

All I can do is just shake my head at such weird and dysfunctional trash being,...ugh,...uh, nevermind,...

These people shame this country.