Wednesday, May 26, 2004

Bush's job creation for high school grads

The New York Times reports we have guys with high school degrees interrogating prisoners in Iraq:

The CACI Corporation employed all of the contract interrogators at Abu Ghraib, including Stephen Stefanowicz, who is the other contractor implicated in the scandal......Education among all the contract employees varied. Most had some college education; 18 of the 44 had a four-year degree, or more; seven had only a high school diploma. Six of those were CACI employees.

Do you suppose they learned Arabic, or Kurdish, at their high schools? Bet they were making good money, though. Much more than we are paying our military who are doing the same job.

Of course, with nicknames like these, I doubt they are more conversant with the English language than Prances in Flightsuit:

The forms asked the workers if they used aliases, and several offered fearsome ones. Kevin Bloodworth, an Air Force veteran from Great Fall, Mont., who is serving as an interrogator, said he was known as Blood. And Timothy Duggan, an interrogator from Pataskala, Ohio, who said he was 6 feet tall and weighed 225 pounds, offered his alias, Big Dog.




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