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General Taguba clearly doesn't have any respect for General Karpinski. He is disgusted with her emotions, her failure to take responsibility and her willingness to blame everyone else for the problem.

He faults her for all of these things, plus her absence from the prison area, leaving everything unsupervised.

If the offending general had been a male, he might have felt the same way. There's no way of knowing that. He has 32 or 33 years in the military, so I have no doubt that he is old school in his thinking.

About his feelings regarding Rumsfeld. I had replied to you about this, but it probably got lost in the flurry of messages on this thread.

So, I'll just copy it here again.

***General Taguba had many opportunities to get Rumsfeld and he didn't do it.

Over and over he emphasized that the problem was at the battalion level and down.

He said it several times. There wasn't even any hedging or any tiny opening to blame Rumsfeld.

He may not like Rumsfeld, I don't know anything about him, but he appears to have done his job professionally and left personal grudges out of it.****

Anyway, be sure and watch the replay on c-span later. You will come to the same conclusion I'm sure.

I'd be interested in how you see it. If you think about it, give me a post and let me know.