Janis Karpinski quotes
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“They transfer the prison, and all of a sudden all this money cuts loose, all these people cut loose.”
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“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.”
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“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 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 -
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“At that time, about July 5, we had no Iraqi corrections officers working for us. It was a responsibility of the CPA, with contractors, to set up a training program.”
-- Janis Karpinski -
“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 -
“I knew how many MPs I had assigned to the brigade, how many military prison operations I would be running, but we needed to evaluate how many criminal prison operations we could support.”
-- Janis Karpinski
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“In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.”
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Source : Adam Gidwitz (2012). “In a Glass Grimmly”, p.143, Penguin
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“Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.”
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“Indians don't last in prison. They weren't born for it like the whites.”
Source : "Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here", 1969.
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