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Abu Unaccountable. Consider the paradox of Bush personally approving the demotion of Army Reserve Brig. Gen. Janis L. Karpinski, the only general to be punished in connection with investigations into detainee abuse at Abu Ghraib. She alone was set up to take the fall for the interrogation policy that the White House approved and his staff actively promoted (at the same time they were preparing the entire Iraq invasion on the premises of bogus WMD).

As her lawyer said, "They're saying she's the only senior leader that had any part in this, but they're saying she didn't have a direct part in it. I think they're trying to have it both ways. They are severing the chain of command right at her eyeball level, and not letting it go higher."

But the chain of command does indeed go higher, much higher...

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