October 05, 2005

This is a great wrapup of the Abu Ghraib "scandal" so read it all.
Here's the opening:
The 'Torture Narrative' Unravels


Pfc. Lynndie England is convicted, and the military's critics are proved wrong.

It's hardly a secret that Pfc. Lynndie England was sentenced last week for her role as "leash girl" in the infamous abuses photographed at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison in late 2003. But it was also noticeable that the denouement of this spectacular story was relegated to the innards of newspapers that had once given it weeks of front-page treatment.
[Guess Mr. Pollock doesn't dare to mention names, but I will--The New York Times.--Jen]
That's almost surely because the trial of the last of the Maryland Army Reservists to face justice--like those of the others that came before her--offered no evidence to support claims that the abuses were caused by a Bush administration that had "created the climate" or "set the tone" for "torture."

I said at the time that this would prove to be the case and it's nice to be right, but I feel even better that our military and its higher level Pentagon execs like SecDef Donald Rumsfeld have been exonerated.
The Left is so confused: Did you notice how they screamed for the military to help during Hurricane Katrina evacutions but refused to recognize that these were the same "torturers" of Abu Ghraib and Gitmo that they'd reviled in the past and the same "baby killers" they condemn at anti-war protests.
Of course, we watched the military live on TV doing compassionate rescue and medical treatment of men, women, children, the elderly and the infirm of all races, shapes and sizes, as well as most of their pets.

I said at the time (back in Spring 2003) that the military as a whole was "innocent" and I'm glad that I was proved right!
But I'm even happier that "the brass" at the Pentagon, particularly Sec. Def Rumsfeld, was exonerated;
the abuses at Abu Ghraib were exactly as the President stated: heinous acts by a few "rotten eggs" at the foot soldier level, not a sign of "systemic" brutality that ran up and down the chain of command, as the Left maintained.
Did you notice that the Liberals screamed for the military to rescue Katrina's victims, without acknowledging that these were the same "torturers" and "babykillers" they've been reviling since the war began.
To their credit, we saw on live TV that they were compassionate lifesavers, flying thousands of rescue missions and saving men, women, children, the elderly, the sick and even the obese (and most of their pets).
How could you not love the Pentagon, when they give us not only the divine Rummy, but that wonderful "John Wayne dude" Gen. Russell Honoré, who not only has lead the post-Katrina military operations with courage, clear-headedness and strength but who is a gem of a man who has forever given us some of his colorful expressions like "stuck on stupid."