Flight Pundit

Reading this pile of crap on cBS 60 Minutes ‘of lies’ II, we see the personal side of what the liberal medial to the military did because of a  group of weak thugs (kind of like Jayson Blair of the NYT). The liberal media touted that all American Military were like the few idiots that were at Abu-Graib. I contest that every reporter (other than fox news) is a liberal activist against our American Military or anything Republican/Libertarian.

There was one MP that knew and started the write steps when he found out about it.

“You knew there would be some kind of investigation?” Cooper asks.
“I knew these people were going to prison,” Darby says. And in his opinion, they deserved to go to prison.
Darby copied Graner’s pictures onto a disc and put it in an envelope with an anonymous letter. He took the envelope to the Criminal Investigations Division — CID — and told them it had been left on his desk.
“I said, ‘This was left in my office. I was told to give it to the CID.’ I said, ‘Have a nice day, Sir,’ and turned around and walked away,” Darby recalls.
Darby hoped that would be the end of it but within less than 45 minutes, the investigator came to him.

But the liberal media didn’t want to tell anyone. To them it was ‘Bush’s Fault’ starting with the fact that we were there.

Rummy should not have said his name before the issue was resolved.

Weeks later, the guards under investigation were removed and Darby could finally sleep without a gun under his pillow. The suspects were gone, and his name was still secret.
Several months later, 60 Minutes II broke the story of the pictures. An article in “The New Yorker” revealed Darby’s role, though no one in Iraq seemed to notice.
But then, while Darby was having lunch in the mess hall watching Donald Rumsfeld testify before Congress about Abu Ghraib, the defense secretary said, “There are many who did their duty professionally and we should mention that as well. First, Specialist Joseph Darby, who alerted appropriate authorities that abuses were occurring.”
“I just stopped in mid bite. I was eating and I just stopped. What the hell just happened? Now the anxiety came back. Now, I’m worried,” Darby remembers. “Everyone in the unit knew within four hours.”
What was the reaction?

The Evil Guards

“It wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be. You know, I got support,” Darby says.

Wait, why would the evil Americans give him any support?

oh, maybe they were not all evil as the liberal media wants everyone to believe.

But don’t forget the communist Senator ‘Capt’n Chappaquiddick’ Kennedy

While he was a villain to his neighbors, he was a hero to people he had never met, including Caroline Kennedy and Sen. Ted Kennedy, who gave him a “Profile In Courage” award in honor of President John F. Kennedy.

Was this a political opportunity for the communist family?

It was really the liberal media that abused the whole unit, not to mention the whole military. The media presented this as a military wide Americans are evil and it is Bush’s war so they wouldn’t be there if Bush didn’t want another war….

Specialist Joseph Darby was correct in bringing this issue to the chain of command. The chain of command started down the right path. But in reality there were some people that were and did wrong things. It was not the typical of any of the MP’s to do these things that these few ignorant people did.

“I want people to understand that I went to Iraq with 200 of the finest servicemen I’ve ever seen in my life. But those 200, for the rest of their lives, their unit is gonna carry a bad name because of what seven individuals did,” Darby says.
Maj. Gen. George Fay, who investigated Abu Ghraib, told 60 Minutes that Graner and his gang took the vast majority of the pictures for their own sadistic amusement, but that in a few cases, military intelligence officers had asked the gang to soften up a prisoner. The general called Darby “courageous” for blowing the whistle.

Once again it was the liberal media with a political goal and a personal hatred anything American Strength.

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