Nine US soldiers have now been sentenced for their role in the Abu Ghraib torture scandal. But is it enough?

By Marian Blasberg and Anita Blasberg

Davis says that his country punished him for crimes over which he had no control. Instead, he says, the people who were responsible for creating the system of torture and abuse at Abu Ghraib should be brought to justice. Davis wants to talk and wants to set things right.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10527.htm

Charges against US Army soldiers accused of crimes against Iraqis are dismissed or withdrawn at a higher rate than charges in which the victims are fellow soldiers or civilian military employees.

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There is now a widespread recognition shared among senior uniformed U.S. military officers and Washington foreign policy analysts that plans to rapidly build up the Iraqi army as a new, independent effective fighting force have failed disastrously.

http://www.spacewar.com/news/iraq-05zzzs.html


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How many Iraqi battalions are fully trained and equipped, capable of operating independently of U.S. forces? Windows Media:

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10521.htm

“The invasion of Iraq will turn out to be the greatest strategic disaster in U.S. history.” Odom says“

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Tom Engelhardt: Put it all together and it adds up to a tsunami of unsustainable reality. So somebody answer me this question: Based on the evidence, what favor exactly have we been doing the Iraqis these last two disastrous years by occupying their country? I suspect a lot of military people have been asking similar questions as they worry (as their predecessors did in the later Vietnam years) about the future viability of the Army.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/100305C.shtml

A US soldier convicted of humiliating and abusing Iraqi prisoners has said she knew of "worse things" happening at Abu Ghraib.

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