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WesBlog WesPAC: "Stop Blaming the Troops - Investigate the Real Culprits of Abuse"


From his 'WesBlog', Wesley Clark is calling for an investigation of the aledged prisoner abuse in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Cuba. It doesn't take a mental giant to realize that he is trying to embarrass the Bush Administration through this hot button issue. He refers to those incarcerated as a result of the Afghanistan and Iraq conflict as "prisoners of war". Anyone that can read on a tenth grade level can read the Geneva Convention, and understand that these terrorists are not POW's. The US Army regulations that were in force at the time of determination of the status has not been changed since the 1970's.


General Clark was on the Joint Staff in the mid 1990's. If the good General feels so strongly about the US maintaining the "moral high ground", why didn't he arrange for the US Army regulations to be changed while he was in the Chain-of-Command.


Should there be another investigation, with the subsequent "witch hunt"; all of the administrations and those on the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1975 until today should be named a party to the investigation. That includes all of the Presidents, their administrations and the Joint Chiefs of Staff members from Richard Nixon to Bush 43. Each and everyone of them share the blame for not updating the regulations, and instituting changes to the training on the Geneva Conventions everywhere it is covered - from Basic Training to the War Colleges for all branches of service.