The Dover Air Force Base scandal continues to grow today, as the Pentagon is now admitting that not only the remains of slain soldiers, but the remains of a number of civilians killed on 9/11 were disposed off in a Virginia landfill.
The scandal initial broke late last year, with the revelation that the Air Force had disposed of unclaimed soldiers’ remains in the landfill, and later they said records showed at least 274 US soldiers were dumped in this manner.
The new report says that the base cremated “unidentified” remains from the 9/11 attacks and then shipped them off to be dumped by a contractor. Retired Gen. John Abizaid, who was leading the panel that issued the report, declined to offer further details.
The report ended with a conclusion that the personnel at Dover need “more training” about the handling of corpses, and that there should be a general appointed to be in charge to prevent this from happening again. The Air Force has insisted that the dumpings were consistent with policy at the time, and that the policy has been revised since then.
Whenever some outrage reaches the public's ears, and the mundanes get up in arms, you can count like clockwork on hearing the usual "need more training" excuses. This, the well worn refrain of abusive cops, is the go-to fig leaf for a myriad of sins. Notice though that they always follow "guidelines" as though they're merely robots and have no conscience or responsibility that functions outside of their hard-coded programming.
"We were just following orders."
Yes, that explanation worked out just dandy for the Germans on trial for their lives at Nuremberg. Hypocrisy, much?
But you see, the Germans lost, and so, could be put on trial..
Gangsters judging gangsters. How apt.
There is something very weird about this story. AFAIK, there were very few unidentified remains at the Pentagon. The Armed Forces Institute of Pathology says they IDed all but five of the 189 victims. Perhaps those five are the ones referred to here? http://911review.org/Wget/www.armymedicine.army.m…
One interesting note on these autopsies is that no hijackers, and in fact no Arabs at all, were on the list of identified remains.
That's what they said then. I have a feeling they are making this up as they go along, and one bureaucrat retires giving way to another who concocts a different story. The question is – why do they insist on dangling this before the public to get a response (usually outrage against the opposite party to which the enraged reactor belongs).
I think I'll stick with my original belief: I have been lied to from the get go.
Every new piece of information that comes in seems to reinforce the idea that this thing was done with "mirrors". If you wanted to give, say, pilot Chick Burlingame, a hero's funeral, would you not do what you would with any Vietnam war pilot whose bones are found in some remote jungle – you'd gather up every shard, every fragment. Or if you wanted to deal with those school children killed on the way to the Channel Islands with that National Geographic woman… you wouldn't just shove them into landfill. How hard is it to retrieve stuff from the Pentagon when you're right there, you have total ability to secure the area, you have complete leisure to make sure the remains are given back to people – why you even claim to have autopsied them!
Before anyone should engage in polarizing arguments which pit one party against another, one should ask – what would happen if a passenger jet in American would slam into a building – or when they actually did in the past?