#soldier

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I had 16 other prisons that I needed to pay attention to, and we did. And I had 3,400 soldiers who were depending on me to take care of them, and I did.


Janis Karpinski


#care #depending #did #had #i

I thought that that mission and the mission of taking care of those soldiers were my priorities, and I stand by the same today. There wasn't a lot of support for those soldiers.


Janis Karpinski


#i #lot #mission #priorities #same

If they conducted a raid in this room, you'd all be policed up. They'd take all of you to Abu Ghraib and turn you over to the soldiers. Maybe there's only one or two of you in this group who was a known associate or had any piece of information that they are trying to exploit.


Janis Karpinski


#any #associate #conducted #exploit #ghraib

If you are charged with this responsibility of enhancing interrogations, or using soldiers to enhance interrogations to find Saddam, and you're above the law for all practical purposes, you might try some unusual techniques. Now we know that, in fact, they did.


Janis Karpinski


#charged #did #enhance #enhancing #fact

The war was declared over - the end of major combat operations - in May 2003. Release procedures got under way immediately; reducing the population from 8,000 to just over 300, of course, requires fewer military police soldiers.


Janis Karpinski


#course #declared #end #fewer #got

There was a military police brigade with over 3,400 soldiers getting ready to go home because their mission - prisoner-of-war operations - was finished.


Janis Karpinski


#brigade #finished #getting #go #go home

We need to fix this. It hasn't been done yet because there's still a reluctance to admit that there was even a problem - anywhere above seven rogue soldiers who got out of control on the night shift.


Janis Karpinski


#admit #anywhere #because #been #control

I, Philip Kearny, an old soldier, enter my solemn protest against this order for retreat.


Philip Kearny


#enter #i #old #order #philip

Soldiers, when committed to a task, can't compromise. It's unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting the task go until it's been done.


John Keegan


#been #committed #compromise #courage #devotion

The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn't going to compose Beethoven's Fifth.


Kurt Vonnegut


#anyway #beethoven #compose #done #example