Comments on: Heroes of the Korean War: General Haydon Boatner – Part 6

By: Heroes of the Korean War: General Haydon Boatner - Part 5 at ROK Drop

Heroes of the Korean War: General Haydon Boatner - Part 5 at ROK Drop — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 20:13:07 +0000

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By: GI Korea

GI Korea — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 17:41:02 +0000

Sean,

In playing the blame with Abu Graib Karpinski is pretty high up the chain of command. I really think the only person higher than her that may share direct blame is General Sanchez.

Plenty of people want to blame Rumsfeld for it but I don't think Rumsfeld had much to do with what a few idiot guards on the Abu Graib night shift were doing. I think you can make an argument that he was incompetent for not making handling of prisoners a priority but as far as blaming him for Abu Graib I think that is a stretch. You would think a one star general such as Karpinski would be competent enough to ensure proper conduct inside the prison was being practiced.

By: ChickenHead

ChickenHead — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 10:05:51 +0000

Heh…

"Lessons Learned from the Goje Incident"

Didn't you mean "Lessons Presented"?

By: Sean

Sean — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 04:53:58 +0000

Not only do the troops in charge of POWs need to be well-trained and disciplined, but the leadership needs to be of equally-or greater-quality. You mentioned Graner, England and Karpinski, but let's keep moving up the chain of command. For senior officers or DOD officials to allow such a situation to evolve (devolve?) under their watch, then claim ignorance or hang out a subordinate for blame, is inexcusable.

By: me

me — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 16:22:59 +0000

I learned that these things can be dragged out taking away the interest factor of the blog