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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jay the Obscure: [QB] Apparently Mr. Bush did not see the pictures of this until he saw it on [URL=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3854-2004May5.html]television[/URL]. But it seems that people were trying to warn Mr. Bush and Mr. Rumsfeld for a while. [QUOTE]BROKEN PROCESS OR OFFICIAL POLICY?....Apparently everyone's been trying to warn Bush and Rumsfeld about possible abuse of prisoners in Iraq for months now. And not just the usual bleeding hearts: David Kay: "I was there and I kept saying the interrogation process is broken. The prison process is broken. And no one wanted to deal with it. It was too, too distasteful. This is a known problem, and the military refuses to deal with it." Paul Bremer: "Bremer repeatedly raised the issue of prison conditions as early as last fall � both in one-on-one meetings with Rumsfeld and other administration leaders, and in group meetings with the president's inner circle on national security. Officials described Bremer as 'kicking and screaming' about the need to release thousands of uncharged prisoners and improve conditions for those who remained." Colin Powell: "According to eye witnesses to debate at the highest levels of the Administration...whenever Powell or [Richard] Armitage sought to question prisoner treatment issues, they were forced to endure what our source characterizes as 'around the table, coarse, vulgar, frat-boy bully remarks about what these tough guys would do if THEY ever got their hands on prisoners....'" Well, maybe these folks really did try to get everyone to pay attention to this issue or maybe they're just covering their own asses after the fact. Who knows? Via [URL=http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2004_05/003863.php]Washington Monthly[/URL] [/QUOTE]Besides, Mr. Bush ran as the CEO president, because his previous stints as CEO were so successful. Can we now add his current office to his list of CEO failures and move on? Because if the CEO president does not listen to people who are trying to warn him, AND surrounds himself with incompetents who can neither do the task the CEO president has delegated to them or refuse to pass up pertinent information from other subordinates, AND refuses to replace these incompetents � WHY would anyone vote to give the bumbler another try at the office. This ain�t Arbusto you know. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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