Get Buckner out of there!

Apparently Buckner is still in Iraq, still letting the ball go through his legs: link

An excerpt:

Company A of the 519th Military Intelligence Battalion spent most of 2003 in Iraq, following a 2002 deployment in Afghanistan, Lt. Col. Billy Buckner, spokesman for the Fort Bragg-based 18th Airborne Corps, said Monday.

Capt. Carolyn A. Wood was the officer in charge of interrogations during both deployments, Buckner said. Wood no longer is stationed at Fort Bragg, but Buckner said he didn't know where she was transferred.

Buckner said neither Wood nor her unit have been accused of any wrongdoing in Afghanistan or Iraq.

He said that when Wood redeployed to Iraq last year, she modified the interrogation techniques used on prisoners there.

"In Afghanistan they had some interrogation rules of engagement. When they deployed to Iraq, she (Wood) brought those rules with her," Buckner said. "Those rules were modified to make sure the right restraints were in place."


OK, this is me again (note to self, learn how to change fonts). Rules of engagement are rules for conducting warfare, not rules for conducting interrogation, as Sen. Carl Levin pointed out to generals Abezaid, Miller and Sanchez. Guess Senate Committee on Armed Forces hearings aren't being televised in Iraq yet.