Enemy Combatant
Monday, May 24, 2004
Heads Will Recline!
Army Suspends General In Charge of Abu Ghraib
The Army suspended Brig. Gen. Janis L. Karpinski from her command of the 800th Military Police Brigade yesterday, more than four months after abuses of detainees were discovered at the Abu Ghraib prison under her command.
Karpinski was indefinitely relieved of her command pending the outcome of investigations into treatment of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, but Army officials said the move should not be taken as punishment.
No. 2 Army General to Move In as Top U.S. Commander in Iraq
The top American officer in Iraq, Lt. Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez, will leave his command this summer, to be replaced by the Army's second-ranking general, senior Pentagon officials said Monday. The change is part of an overhaul of the American command structure in Iraq that will put a higher-ranking officer in charge.
Pentagon officials said that replacing General Sanchez with the Army vice chief of staff, Gen. George W. Casey Jr., in no way reflected on General Sanchez's handling of the widening prisoner-abuse scandal at Abu Ghraib prison, outside of Baghdad, which was under his authority.
Gosh no, we don't want to suggest THAT, do we? Because, you know, this is the "responsibility" administration. Which means, we keep the "responsibility after-assessment" confined to the enlisted ranks.
I mean, why should we waste our beautiful minds on a thing like, uh, Abu -- Abu -- Camp, uh, Detention. Declention? Suspension?
Ah! Camp Redemption!
