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Re: Wining Hearts & Minds
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Wed, 5 May 2004 08:32:26 GMT
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I’m not sure that Scott is calling for restricted press. I have little doubt
that he’d prefer to have all these crimes subjected to the light of public
scrutiny.
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Yep, and I don’t want foot soldiers to carry the can for
institutional
failures either: In a letter home earlier this year, Staff Sergeant Chip
Frederick, one of the soldiers charged, said he had questioned some of the
things that he saw taking place, and was told, “This is how military
intelligence wants it done.” Frederick’s lawyer is preparing to defend his
client at court martial by saying that he is being scapegoated for a greater
failure of leadership. “The intelligence community forced them into this
position,” Gary Myers told the New York Times. This argument of superior orders
would almost certainly not prevent Frederick being held legally responsible for
his actions, but it does suggest that others might share his guilt.
Scott A
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| (...) Mmmmm. I saw Geoffrey Robertson interviewed on (URL) Lateline> and while it wasn't the focus of the interview, he got to the nub of what concerns me about this. "...because what we're seeing here is not just the kind of abuse that happens in (...) (20 years ago, 11-May-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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