Kirk Watson: “last week the Iraqi Bureau Chief for Newsweek Magazine left Iraq after being there for 2 years and wrote one final…”

“last week the Iraqi Bureau Chief for Newsweek Magazine left Iraq after being there for 2 years and wrote one final report entitled ``Good Intentions Gone Bad.'' Rod Nordland said the turning point in the war was the Abu Ghraib scandal. Nordland wrote: ``The abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib alienated a broad swath of the Iraqi public. There is no evidence that all the mistreatment and humiliation saved a single American life or led to the capture of any major terrorist.'' The abuse of detainees in U.S. custody has severely undermined our Nation's position in the world. And yet congressional Republicans are still unwilling to call for an independent investigation to determine what exactly is happening in these prisons. How can we possibly regain our credibility in the world until we actually investigate the possibilities of abuse? We still do not know why these abuses took place. ____________________”