The mission statement was ordered, and it sent the 800th MP Brigade, effective the first of July, up to Baghdad. I joined my brigade to take command at the end of June.

2006 - Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers. In April 2004 CBS' 60 Minutes II broadcast photographs of Iraqi prisoners being tortured and humiliated at Abu Ghraib which had been taken by military personnel. An investigation was started into the abuse.

On May 5 2005 President George W. Bush approved Karpinski's demotion to Colonel from the rank of Brigadier General. She commanded three prisons in Iraq and the forces that ran them.