I've heard referenced to this interview on the news several times within the past day or so. I think everyone should listen to the BBC interview. I had a little difficulty conjuring it up, but here's what you do:   click in the "LISTEN AGAIN" box (where it says "Listen to the most recent programme") or on the "A to Z Directory" and scroll down to "On the Ropes." [I go into detail on this because I had grope a bit before I found it.]

In essence, the story I've heard on American news say "Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski, the former U.S. commander of the Abu Ghraib prison, says the decision to abuse detainees was made much higher up the chain of command. Karpinsksi also told the BBC that the current Iraq prisons chief, Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller, had suggested Karpinksi alter interrogation techniques at Abu Ghraib and once said prisoners should be treated 'like dogs'."

Here's more.

Sounds to me like Gen. Miller would feel very much at home back in the fifteenth century conducting an interrogation for the Spanish Inquistion. I wonder why no senators or representatives—or, for that matter, reporters—haven't raised questions about how the "detainees" at Guantanamo, many interred because they were suspected of something, but not charged with anything, held incommunicado and denied benefit of counsel, are being treated. Obviously they are being interrogated. Gen. Miller has said so, and he claims he, unlike Gen. Karpinski, gets results.

If someone were to get off their butt and investigate Guantanamo, they might find out that Abu Ghraib looks like a health spa by comparison.

What the hell has happened to this country anyway!??   

Don Firth