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Originally Posted by JoeRedskin
This past weekend, I spoke to a former captain who was responsible for the prison system in Baghdad after the Abu Gharaib fiasco. He said that, after AG, the Americans basically cleaned up their act and that his main job was protecting Iraqi prisoners from their Iraqi keepers. The Iraqi had hidden jails, (essentially unventilated, unsanitary warehouses - nothing like what we would consider a prison) in which Iraqis tortured and killed their detainees. The biggest problem he had with his men was that they consistently intervened between the Iraqi "lawful authority" and the detainees in order to save the detainees lives.
My point is that the Iraqi's and us have completely different ideas on what constitutes the rule of law. Human rights apply only to those of your sect b/c only they are human.
While on its face the statement seems hypocritical, in fact, it is not given the vast differences between Iraqi "justice" and American justice.
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The whole AG thing was/is ugly. Heads are still rolling over that, and many are still calling for Gonzales to step down over this.
In the end, I just hope that we can somehow be restored back to the international community when it comes to matters of foreign policy.