Iraq: what else can be expected?

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- A U.S. Army officer who was commander of a military prison in Iraq has been charged with giving a cell phone to suspected insurgents who were detained there, a charge described as "aiding the enemy," according to the U.S. military.

Lt. Col. William H. Steele, who was commander of the U.S. Army's Camp Cropper, also was charged with having an improper relationship with a detainee's daughter and an interpreter and possessing pornography, the military said.

Camp Cropper, located near Baghdad International Airport, houses thousands of suspected insurgent detainees and some high profile prisoners. Former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was held there until he was hanged last December.

Steele was arrested last month and confined in a military jail in Kuwait while he awaits an Article 32 hearing, the military equivalent of a grand jury hearing, according to U.S. military spokeswoman Lt. Col. Josslyn Aberle.

The four charges also accuse Steele of possessing and mishandling classified information, disobeying an order, and not doing his duty in the approval of funds, according to the U.S. military.

The military gave few specifics about the charges. The first one said that Steele "did, between on or about 1 October 2005 and 31 October 2006, aid the enemy by providing an unmonitored cellular phone to detainees." It gave no specifics about the number or identity of the detainees involved.

The second charge accused Steele of "having unauthorized possession of classified information" and "knowingly and willfully retaining the same and failing to deliver it to the officer or employee of the United States."

Charge three suggested that Steele carried on improper relationships with Iraqis, interactions that were deemed "conduct unbecoming an officer in the armed forces." Specifically, it said that on two dates in October 2005 and February 2007, Steele did "wrongfully fraternize with the daughter of a detainee."

The third charge also said Steele did "knowingly and wrongfully provide special privileges to and maintain an inappropriate relationship with an interpreter" between December 2005 and December 2006.

The fourth charge against Steele included a range of accusations that he possessed pornographic videos, wrongfully possessed classified information, disobeyed an order, and "failed to fulfill his obligations as an approving authority in the expenditure of Field Ordering Officer funds."

and your question is....?

More failures to come. The Bush administration continues to mismanage the troops. The U.S. will continue to lose its military advantage and its military personnel. Its a losing situation for the U.S..

All I can say is that these are the leaders the common soldier has to follow.
I wonder what the publics response would have been to this headline: Commander Refuses to Allow Detainees Access to Cell Phone

With time the hair line cracks on the bowl with water dripping out on the side is going to spill all the water it could no longer hold in planet of apes.
Exposing the mess created by the children in kicking the butts of the dirty old men all over planet of apes.

Starting in Jan. 2008, the military draft will be re-instituted in order to provide all the troops bush will need for his wars in Iraq, Iran, Syria, Afghanistan, and in Venezuela.

Iraq will be a total failure and 90% of Americans will be calling for the end of his war, but he will bring the military in to keep him from being removed from office while he continues drafting young Americans, and when he runs out of young Americans he will start taking grandmothers and grandfathers.

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A region wide war as soon as the democrats win the White House, forcing a Coalition withdrawal and the Iraqi Shia go on a killing spree against the Sunni. If you are simply pointing out that there are bad apples, gee what a shock that some people don't always do the right thing.

I read this twice and could not find an a question anywhere.

To break it down, he did or said something someone in Bushco didn't like.

A war for nothing... just pleasure to Lie, kill, Still.