Bush policy 'led to Abu Ghraib'

[dipsydoodle]

Source: BBC News

US government backing for the CIA's harsh interrogation methods set the tone for abuses by US troops towards detainees in Iraq, a US report says.

It was not appropriate simply to blame low-ranking officers for what occurred at Abu Ghraib prison, the report by the Senate Armed Services Committee said.

Top officials had sent the message that such acts were appropriate, it stated.

The report follows the release of Bush-era memos that justify the use of what some critics say amounts to torture.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8012036.stm

[lazer47]

1. If this is true then, which I believe it to be,, then people

like Lynde England and the rest of the people convicted over Abu Ghraib' should be immediately pardoned,,and their convictions overturned..

[TEmperorHasNoClothes]

2. in the words of my grandmother, "no shit sherlock"

[SpiralHawk]

3. "D'oh. Smirk." - xCommander AWOL (R)

[shadowknows69]

4. Nice of the rest of America to start realizing what we knew all along here

Maybe if the press had done their job BEFORE the criminals got to do their full 8 year run of destruction; lives and our reputation in the world might have been saved.