The Case of Donald Rumsfeld and Prisoner Abuse at Abu Ghraib Introduction The report on the case of Donald Rumsfeld starts off with Rumsfeld’s hearing (May 7‚ 2004) with the Senate Armed Services Committees. His response to the question of whether he should resign or not; is “If I felt I could not be effective‚ I’d resign in a minute.” The report also gives an account of General Antonio Taguba’s investigation results of Abu Ghraib. He gives a report on the following: Conditions
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Baylee Crumpler Professor Dr. Maul Sociology 7 October 2010 Abu Ghraib Prison In the United States today‚ people have become less caring for others‚ commit tremendous amounts of crime‚ and show many signs of hatred. Abuses take place in peoples’ everyday lives physically‚ psychologically‚ and sexually. Crimes such as torture‚ rape‚ sodomy‚ and homicide became popular in Iraq‚ at Abu Ghraib prison. Surprisingly‚ these terrible acts were committed by military police personnel of the United
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was during the era of Saddam Hussein at Abu Ghraib‚ a U.S. military prison located right outside of Baghdad. There have been studies conducted and experiments performed in the attempt of a better understanding of the despicable actions of our fellow citizens. The Stanford Prison Experiment‚ conducted by Phillip G. Zimbardo‚ is one similar to the Abu Ghraib case. While it was merely a mock experiment‚ the results closely parallel to those in the Abu Ghraib prison. Each individual person in
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ABU GHRAIB - A Coverage Comparison & Analysis CNN (Western Media) vs. al Jazeera On Wednesday‚ April 28‚ 2004‚ a series of pictures broadcast on CBV “60 Minutes II” prompted an worldwide media frenzy that challenged America’s so-called moral superiority‚ complicated the fight against terror in the Middle East‚ crippled U.S. relations with the international community and elicited public demands for high-level accountability. The physical‚ psychological and sexual abuse‚ including torture‚ rape
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SCHOOL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS T he Box 353060 · University of Washington · Seattle WA 98195 -3060 www.hallway.org DONALD RUMSFELD AND PRISONER ABUSE AT ABU GHRAIB Facing the Senate Armed Services Committees on May 7‚ 2004‚ Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld responded to the question of whether he would resign over the recently exposed prisoner abuse allegations in Iraq: “Needless to say‚ if I felt I could not be effective‚ I’d resign in a minute. I would not resign simply because people
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to these horrifying acts of abuse was the lack of command. Reports made by the Taguba made it clear that the higher and mid-level command are at fault for the lack of leadership‚ including the failures to enforce standards and accountability‚ to supervise adequately‚ and enforce the Geneva Conventions Guidelines. The Geneva Convention is a law that prohibits torture‚ outrages upon personal dignity‚ and humiliating and degrading treatment of detainees (Ghosts of Abu Ghraib). This law was set in place
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How does ‘Lyndiee England at Abu Ghraib’ help us to understand why good people to bad things? Lyndiee‚ before being posted in Iraq‚ was an innocent soldier or a ‘good person’. However‚ when she tortured the prisoners in Abu Ghraib to the extent the actions were deemed to be an example of dehumanisation‚ she was labelled a bad person by society. When I watched the video I became aware that she was still a good person but she had just done bad things because of the situation she was in and
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The Abu Ghraib prison scandal shocked the whole nation into disbelief that our United State’s army can do such a thing. In Marianne Szegedy-Maszak’s‚ The Abu Ghraib Prison Scandal: Sources of Sadism‚ explains the rough conditions and new situations these young soldiers were faced. The Abu Graib prison shared many traits needed to make our everyday human beings in to a torturer. But‚ what would it take for me and you to act out such a horrific ordeal? Yale psychologist Stanley Milgram created an
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Working in the office of Abu Ghraib had me bored out of my mind. The rest of my MP unit were stationed as guards‚ but I was holed up with computers and spreadsheets and phone calls. The best thing was looking out of a small window into the vast desert. I could see my insignificance roll out into the horizon. I had always wanted to send this feeling back home so that Bernadette could have a taste of what I was experiencing. Graner and Sabrina were the photo buffs back at Abu Ghraib. I
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key issue for obedience‚ discuss by using theories/studies from obedience for what happened in Abu Ghraib The Abu Ghraib prison is a notorious prison in Iraq‚ located in Abu Ghraib‚ near Baghdad. US soldiers were told to abuse and humiliate the prisoners by their leaders; this included chaining them up‚ treating them like dogs‚ and sometimes sexually harassing them. In April 2004 the abuses at Abu Ghraib were exposed with photos and videos showing US soldiers abusing naked Iraqis. On the 22nd October
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