Yes. Certainly one of the first things you do in military planning is to plan for securing of prisoners. You do not have soldiers who appear to have been recruited by Jerry Springer guarding them, and you do not have the guards put themselves in such unsecure situations, and you do not mix up the genders, and you let the Red Cross in from day one and listen to what they say. YOu make sure they have access to adequate food, water, shelter, medicine etc. If there are troubles you yank the troublemakers like that. Apparently the worst of the soldiers haven't even been removed from duty or reassigned yet..although I do not know that for sure. Have them sort mail or do laundry or something in the meantime. You ask to see the inspections that should have been taking place. Apart from putting prisoners, who you do not know to be part of any insurrection etc. and could be just people in the wrong place at the wrong time, in humiliating and deadly situations, you don't leave yourself exposed to them deciding they do not like this and could up and turn on you. If I had been a prisoner I would have killed one of the guards I do believe. You think about the consequences to your own prisoners of war who can follow after. We have set a precedent that will take generations to undo. Something is really really rotten and I do not believe it is just a few people.

In addition, as a former WAC, someone needs to be supervising those women. In the first place, there are places where mixing male and female troops is OK, sometimes it is more than OK, sometimes females should take over and sometimes males. But this whole shameful episode brings in a sexual component that is dirty, sacriligious to their religion (and ours), obviously abusive etc. etc.

And where is Cheney in all this?

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