9.26.2010

No, Bunky, that war is not over yet

PROMISES, PROMISES: No amends yet for Abu Ghraib? - Boston.com

WASHINGTON—Fending off demands that he resign over the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, then-Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld told Congress in 2004 that he had found a legal way to compensate Iraqi detainees who suffered "grievous and brutal abuse and cruelty at the hands of a few members of the United States armed forces."...

Six years later, the U.S. Army is unable to document a single payment for prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib.

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