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“This administration is populated by people who’ve spent their careers bashing government. They’re not just small-government conservatives—they’re Grover Norquist, strangle-it-in-the-bathtub conservatives. It’s a cognitive disconnect for them to be able to do something well in an arena that they have so derided and reviled all these years.”

Senator Hillary Clinton

Thursday, July 22, 2004

More abuse than previously thought

Looks like we misunderestimated our troops.

From the BBC:
The US military has found 94 cases of confirmed or alleged abuse of prisoners by its troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, a Senate hearing has been told.
Though some cases have been reported before the number is significantly higher than previously acknowledged.

But the report said no systemic problems contributed to the abuses.

(snip)

However, the report later quoted a February report by the International Red Cross Committee alleging that methods of ill treatment were "used in a systematic way" by the US military in Iraq.