Viva_La_Revolution
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Sun Jan-01-06 05:58 PM
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After Words: Janis Karpinski interview on CSPAN2 Now. |
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On Saturday, December 31 at 8:00 pm and Sunday, January 1 at 6:00 pm and at 9:00 pm --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
After Words: Janis Karpinski interviewed by Douglas Macgregor
This week on After Words, former Army Brigadier General Janis Karpinski, author of "One Woman's Army: The Commanding General of Abu Ghraib Tells Her Story." She explains her version of how soldiers under her command abused Iraqi detainees. The former Commander of the Military Police Brigade in Iraq also retells the events that led to an internal Army investigation, and her demotion to the rank of Colonel. She is interviewed by retired Army Colonel Douglas Macgregor, retired Army Colonel Douglas Macgregor, author of books on Army reform and transformation including "Breaking the Phalanx", & "Transformation under Fire." Colonel Macgregor also developed the original concept for intervention in Iraq involving the use of an armored heavy force of roughly 50,000 troops to attack into Baghdad.
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Sun Jan-01-06 06:43 PM
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1. I guess she is old news now? |
Cleita
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Sun Jan-01-06 06:45 PM
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2. I just finished reading her book. My TV is incommunicado |
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right now because of the rain, so I can't watch.
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Sun Jan-01-06 06:46 PM
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3. I'd love to watch it, but hubby is locked in on a show he has been |
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watching for a while.
Any surprises?
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Sun Jan-01-06 06:51 PM
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4. Macgregor has grilled her pretty hard on a couple of bits of her story... |
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but no suprises that I've heard. I was distracted and have missed too much. :(
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