There was a military police brigade with over 3,400 soldiers getting ready to go home because their mission - prisoner-of-war operations - was finished.
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Military intelligence interrogators, however, their goal is to get information, to save lives, to stop the war, to find Saddam - whatever the information is going to be used for, at whatever cost.Janis Karpinski
The findings in the report have been largely discredited because he was not an impartial party and because so much more information has come out.
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We're never going to know the truth until they do an independent commission or look into this independently, ... This is about instructions delivered with full authority and knowledge of the Secretary of Defense and probably Cheney. I don't know if the President was involved or not. I don't care. All I know is, those instructions were communicated from the Secretary of Defense's office, from the Pentagon, through Cambone, through Miller, to Abu Ghraib.
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Thankfully we don't have any report but that might be as simple as soldiers being told what they can say to the media and what they can't say to the media,
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After they killed Uday and Qusay, the focus centered on Saddam: Find him, kill him, capture him, whatever it takes. To me, it was a false sense of security: If we get Saddam, we're going to win this war.
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How could (the military) hold me accountable when I had no direct access ... How come they didn't hold Rumsfeld accountable. How is that possible
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