Anyone Surprised that Prisons in Iraq Resemble Prisons in the US?

Well color me shocked. The prisons in Iraq resemble the prisons in the US. Gang rule,check. Radical Muslim indoctrination, check. Sectarian violence, check. Murder and Mayhem the rule, check. Explain to me why anyone is surprised? Why are we studying this in Iraq? We cannot run prisons in the US…for the last 40 years we have been completely incapable of truly locking people down.

America’s high-security prisons in Iraq have become “terrorist academies” for the most dangerous militant groups, according to former inmates and Iraqi government officials.

Inmates are left largely to run their blocks, which are segregated on sectarian lines. The policy has created a closed world run by Iraq’s worst terrorists and militias, into which detainees with no links to insurgent groups are often thrown.

Inmates from Camp Cropper, the U.S. prison at Baghdad airport, described to The Times seeing Al Qaeda terrorists club to death a man suspected of being an informer. Others dished out retribution with razor wire stolen from the fences.

Captain Phillip Valenti, a U.S. officer responsible for prisons, said he knew of at least three cases of prisoners being murdered by inmates.

“We are very concerned about insurgent efforts to recruit and convert detainees,” he said.Source: FOXNews.com – Insurgents Transform U.S. Military Jails Into ‘Terror Training Camps’ – International News | News of the World | Middle East News | Europe News

Who gives a damn anymore….when we are giving back terrorist leaders to rescue wayward children exactly why does it make any difference who gets trained in the prisons. We aren’t willing to stop the people who are training the people outside the prisons. We aren’t willing to stop the nations who are killing our soldiers, exactly how important is it that we stop the guys inside from training. Ok maybe I shouldn’t be so disgusted with this entire process maybe there is actually some purpose being served by our being over there even if we are going to allow nations to equip, train, fund and then participate in the killing of our troops. Will someone please explain?

Cause I have been one of the most vocal supporters of the war since before the damn war started. From before the war started I knew we had to take down Saddam. And yet except for the bravery and brilliance of the US Soldier it has been a mess.

Iran funds equips, trains, then participates in terrorist activities against our soldiers. Nothing is done.
Syria funds equips, trains, then participates in terrorist activities against our soldiers. Nothing is done. Indeed that gets them a friendly visit from a Political Leader of the United States determined to make an ass of us all.
We have never increased our military spending from the Clinton years as measured as a percentage of GDP. Matter of fact we are below most of the years of the Clinton years. Please explain how we can afford “No Child Left Behind” “Prescription Drug Benefit” “Bridge To Nowhere” and a whole host of Pork Barrel projects and all the while keeping our spending below Clintons? At least Clinton had the excuse that we were not yet aware we were in a war of existential import.

The facts show the story of a nation unwilling to dedicate the same percentage of funds towards its own defense as it did when a substantially more rational enemy was faced across the Rubicon. (1990=5.6, 1991=5.0, 1992=5.2, 1993=4.8, 1994=4.3, 1995=4.0, 1996=3.7, 1997=3.5, 1998=3.3, 1999= 3.3)Defense spending in 2006 remained at 3.7% of GDP a level not far from the lowest point of the Clinton years and which we were led to believe by Candidate Bush was too low.
We allowed the United Nations to delay us enough so that one of the most important parts of the mission was lost, the recovery of the WMD’s.
We failed to make clear the extensive connections of Saddam to Al Qaeda. We lost the information war because we didn’t even try. I have said this again and again…and it is so apparent now how awfully right I as to say: The most important reason for going to war against Saddam was to eliminate his ties to terror. They were extensive and easily provable. That the administration failed to make that case is one of its greatest failures.
But the greatest failure, at least in my opinion, was the failure of the administration to engage the entire country in the war. It was a tragic mistake to ask us to go back to life as we knew it.

War is a battle of wills. If we do not even have the will to stop foulplay in prisons we control exactly how will we win? If we do not even have the willpower to stop the Iranians (a third world band of thugs) or Syria (even less of a power) then exactly why don’t we just surrender now and skip the pain? The handing over of the Iranian Terror Leader for those British “soldiers” was another example of our lack of will. We better get our kits in order soon or someone will put them in order for us.

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